Social determinants of health in countries in conflict [[electronic resource] ] : a perspective from the eastern Mediterranean region / / World Health Organization |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (69 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1095 |
Collana | WHO regional publications. Eastern Mediterranean series |
Soggetto topico |
Civilian war casualties - Middle East
Health - Social aspects - Middle East Social conflict - Middle East War and society - Middle East War victims - Middle East |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 92-9021-671-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454793503321 |
Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008 | ||
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Social determinants of health in countries in conflict [[electronic resource] ] : a perspective from the eastern Mediterranean region / / World Health Organization |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (69 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1095 |
Collana | WHO regional publications. Eastern Mediterranean series |
Soggetto topico |
Civilian war casualties - Middle East
Health - Social aspects - Middle East Social conflict - Middle East War and society - Middle East War victims - Middle East |
ISBN | 92-9021-671-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778533903321 |
Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social determinants of health in countries in conflict [[electronic resource] ] : a perspective from the eastern Mediterranean region / / World Health Organization |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (69 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1095 |
Collana | WHO regional publications. Eastern Mediterranean series |
Soggetto topico |
Civilian war casualties - Middle East
Health - Social aspects - Middle East Social conflict - Middle East War and society - Middle East War victims - Middle East |
ISBN | 92-9021-671-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815052703321 |
Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Socio-economics of personalized medicine in Asia / / Shirley Sun |
Autore | Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1095 |
Collana | Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness |
Soggetto topico |
Precision medicine - Social aspects - Asia
Precision medicine - Economic aspects - Asia Social medicine - Asia Medical economics - Asia |
ISBN |
1-134-98919-9
1-315-53717-6 1-134-98912-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Personalized medicine and population-based research and development; What is a population? Race and genetics in North America; Personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, and pharmacoethnicity; Why Asia?; Time, space, and the emergent other; Genomics in Asia and the unfolding dynamics of othering; Current research infrastructure and development concerning personalized medicine in Asia; Existing social-science studies of science and medicine performed in Asia; The illuminating question could be, when are you from?
What is at stake when populations are ethnically or racially labeled?Chapter outline; 2 Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context: Asianism, nationalism, and the racialization of ethnicity; Introduction; The fundamental question of, when are you from?; Once upon a time: the unfolding character of the "Japanese" category; Effects of Japanese colonialism and regional integration on the notion of "Japanese"; Resisting being "othered": scientists in Asia define "Asian" genome diversity Ethnicity as a proxy for genetic diversity and the molecularization of ethnicities in AsiaConclusion; 3 Capitalizing on being "othered": precision medicine and race in the context of a globalized pharmaceutical industry; Introduction; Saving IRESSA; The larger significance of the story of IRESSA; Racializing clinical trials as a routine phenomenon; Local transformations; Pharmacogenomics, race, and post-marketing clinical trials; Conclusion; 4 Managing otherness: genomics and public health policy in Singapore; Introduction; Population aggregate data, ethnicity, and post-market drug vigilance Irinotecan and UGT1A1 genotypingCarbamazepine and HLA-B*1502 genotyping; Analysis of the prevailing practices noted above; The historical emergence of "Malay" as a group during the precolonial era; "Malayness" during the colonial era; "Malayness" in the Malay Peninsula in the postcolonial era; The case of the Malay in Singapore; Conclusion; 5 Cancer genomics in clinics; Introduction; Using ethnicity or race as a basis of clinical decision-making; Personalized medicine in clinical practice: drug efficacy; Personalized medicine in clinical practice: drug toxicities Personalized medicine in clinical practice: preventive medicineConclusion; 6 Socio-economic factors and ethical dilemmas in personalized medicine provision; Introduction; Genome-based personalized medicine is effective but not curative; moreover, it can be prohibitively expensive; Should the cost of a cancer drug be part of the treatment decisions?; Who should be expected to interpret genetic tests when cancer is a "context-dependent manifestation"?; Privacy concerns and the potential for genetic discrimination at the level of the individual and the group Should genome-based pharmaceuticals be the primary approach to treating cancer? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831882803321 |
Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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