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Uncertain precision : managing health care with personalized technologies / Reed E. Pyeritz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyeritz, Reed E., author.
- Series:
- Oxford medicine online.
- Oxford medicine online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Technological innovations.
- Medical care.
- Precision medicine.
- Precision Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Precision Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Personalized Medicine Cannot Always Be Precise, But Precision Medicine Must Always Be Personalized
- Personal Encounters With Health Care
- Formalizing Personalized Medicine
- Personalized and Precision Medicine: Distinct, Or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
- The Historic Precedents of Precision Medicine
- Primum Non Nocera
- Early Promises, Successes, and Stumbles of Precision Medicine
- Biomarkers and Precision Medicine Today
- Precision Medicine Must Always Be Personalized
- Precision Health Care at a Population Level
- Conclusions
- 3 Uncertainty Is a Fact of Life
- The Scope of Uncertainty: An Inescapable Attribute of Life
- Uncertainty in Science and the Science of Uncertainty
- How Do We Cope With Uncertainty?
- Statistics Provide Legitimacy, But Not Certainty, to Data
- 4 Uncertainty Pervades All Health Care
- Two Centuries of Uncertainty
- Uncertainty in the Clinic and Clinical Uncertainty
- Diagnosis-Creep
- What Is Normal?
- Quantifying Uncertainty
- Regrettable Sources of Uncertainty
- Intersection of Science and Medicine Emphasizes That Enormous Ignorance Remains
- Exploring Your Own Health
- Coping With Uncertainty By Embracing It
- 5 Artificial Intelligence: Origins, Applications, and Challenges
- In the Beginning . . .
- ChatGPT and Beyond
- Rate-Limiting Factors
- 6 How Artificial Intelligence Enhances Health Care
- When an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Makes Your Health Care Decisions
- Clinical Decision Making
- AI and Interpreting Images
- AI and Diagnosis
- AI and Treatment
- AI and Counseling Patients
- AI and Clinical Guidelines
- AI and Understanding Variability
- AI and Clinical Trials
- AI and Public Health
- AI and Sources of Medical Information for Patients
- AI and Publishing
- Coda
- 7 Our -Omics
- How-Omes Define Our World
- Genomics
- Epigenomics
- Exposomics
- Metabolomics
- Microbiomics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Personomics
- Integration of -Omics
- Artificial Intelligence and -Omics
- 8 Our Genomes
- The Language of Life
- The Organization of Genetic Information
- The Human Genome Project
- The Problem With the Gene Pool Is That There Is No Lifeguard
- 9 Exploring Our Genes
- Genetic Individuality
- Family History
- Genealogy
- Genomics Is a Scalable Commodity
- Who Has Access to Your Genetic Data, and How Can It Be (Mis)Used?
- Why Perform Genetic Analysis?
- Searching for Causative Genetic Variants
- Incidental Findings
- Some Ironies of Genetic Analysis
- One Genetic Test May Be Insufficient
- Complexities Testing for the Risk of Common Conditions
- DNA Testing for Cancer: Promises of Certainty But Options Plagued With Uncertainties
- Potential Benefits of Genetic Testing Require Accepting Anxiety
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 17, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780197796320
- 019779632X
- 9780197796306
- 0197796303
- Publisher Number:
- 90103658793
- CIPO000316891
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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