Personalised Cancer Medicine: Future Crafting in the Genomic Era - Hardcover

by Anne Kerr (Author), Choon Key Chekar (Author), Emily Ross (Author)

Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the ways in which benefits and opportunities are unevenly realised and distributed.

Front Jacket

Personalised cancer medicine foregrounds the experiences of cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the United Kingdom. The authors trace the promise and possibilities of new genomic approaches to cancer as they unfold through everyday encounters with novel research, tests and treatments in the cancer clinic and beyond. Contrasting powerful claims of transformation and benefit with the difficult and painstaking work involved in making sense of novel data, results and predictions, they show the different future crafted across policy, practice and personal accounts. Representing the first book to investigate how personalised cancer medicine is reshaping the futures of cancer patients, carers and professionals in uneven and partial ways, this book makes an essential contribution to our knowledge of cancer medicine and society.

Back Jacket

Personalised cancer medicine foregrounds the experiences of cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the United Kingdom. The authors trace the promise and possibilities of new genomic approaches to cancer as they unfold through everyday encounters with novel research, tests and treatments in the cancer clinic and beyond. Contrasting powerful claims of transformation and benefit with the difficult and painstaking work involved in making sense of novel data, results and predictions, they show the different future crafted across policy, practice and personal accounts.

Representing the first book to investigate how personalised cancer medicine is reshaping the futures of cancer patients, carers and professionals in uneven and partial ways, this book makes an essential contribution to our knowledge of cancer medicine and society.

Author Biography

Anne Kerr is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow

Choon Key Chekar is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Lancaster

Emily Ross is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Julia Swallow is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh

Sarah Cunningham-Burley is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology at the University of Edinburgh