Building Genetic Medicine Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care

Name: Building Genetic Medicine Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
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ISBN: 9780262517478

ISBN-10: 0262517477

ISBN-13: 9780262517478

Edition: 2007

Authors: Shobita Parthasarathy

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In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as BRCA testing) in the United States and Britain, Parthasarathy develops a comparative analysis framework in order to investigate how national "toolkits" shape both regulations and the architectures of technologies and uses this framework to assess the implications of new genetic technologies. Parthasarathy argues that differences in the American and British approaches to health care and…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English