1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457739903321

Autore

Hedgecoe Adam

Titolo

The politics of personalised medicine : pharmacogenetics in the clinic / / Adam Hedgecoe [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-16320-X

1-280-54139-3

9786610541393

0-511-22556-3

0-511-22613-6

0-511-22424-9

0-511-31774-3

0-511-48913-7

0-511-22491-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences

Disciplina

615.5/8

Soggetti

Pharmacogenetics - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Personalised medicine : a revolution in healthcare -- Pharacogenetics, expectation and promissory science -- Genetics, moral risk and professional resistance -- Clinical resistance to Alzheimer's pharmacogenetics -- Research, industry and pharamacogenetic literacy -- Engineering the clinic : getting personalised medicine into practice -- The fourth hurdle : cost-effectiveness and the funding of pharmacogenetics -- Disappointment and disclosure in the pharmacogenetic clinic -- The personalised is political.

Sommario/riassunto

Pharmacogenetics, the use of genetic testing to prescribe and develop drugs, has been hailed as a revolutionary development for the pharmaceutical industry and modern medicine. Supporters of 'personalised medicine' claim the result will be safer, cheaper, more effective drugs, and their arguments are beginning to influence policy debates. Based on interviews with clinicians, researchers, regulators



and company representatives, this book explores the impact of pharmacogenetics on clinical practice, following two cases of personalised medicine as they make their way from the laboratory to the clinic. It highlights the significant differences between the views of supporters of pharmacogenetics in industry and those who use the technology at the clinical 'coal face'. Theoretically, this work builds on the developing area of the sociology of socio-technical expectations, highlighting the way in which promoters of new technologies build expectations around it, through citation and the creation of technological visions.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702274803321

Titolo

Wind power opportunities in St. Thomas USVI [[electronic resource] ] : a site-specific evaluation and analysis / / E. Lantz ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Golden, Colo. : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , [2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 84 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

NREL/TP ; ; 7A20-55415

Altri autori (Persone)

LantzEric

Soggetti

Wind turbines - Environmental aspects - United States Virgin Islands

Renewable energy sources - United States Virgin Islands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on November 1, 2012).

"September 2012."

"Technical report."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-68).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781718303321

Autore

Hirsch David

Titolo

Abraham Lincoln and the structure of reason [[electronic resource] /] / David Hirsch & Dan Van Haften

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Savas Beatie, c2010

ISBN

1-61121-058-5

Descrizione fisica

xxiii, 439 p. : ill., port

Altri autori (Persone)

Van HaftenDan

Disciplina

973.7092

Soggetti

Reasoning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.