Research Catalog

Title

Building genetic medicine : breast cancer, technology, and the comparative politics of health care / Shobita Parthasarathy.

Author

Parthasarathy, Shobita.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

x, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Inside technology

Uniform Title

Inside technology.

Subject

• BRCA genes > Diagnostic use > United States
• BRCA genes > Diagnostic use > Great Britain
• Genetic screening > Social aspects > United States
• Genetic screening > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Breast > Social aspects > United States
• Breast > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Genetic Testing
• Breast Neoplasms > prevention & control
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Delivery of Health Care
• Ovarian Neoplasms > prevention & control
• United Kingdom
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-262) and index.

Contents

1. Toolkits for genetic testing -- 2. Comparative architectures of genetic testing -- 3. Eliminating the competition and ensuring success -- 4. Defining a good health outcome -- 5. Myriad, Britain, and culture clash.

ISBN

• 0262162423 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780262162425 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006027956

OCLC

• ocm71139448
• 71139448
• SCSB-5326567

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries