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Every month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom
decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients
within the NHS. These groups - Research Ethics Committees (RECs) -
made up of doctors, nurses, researchers, and members of the general
public - help shape the future of medicine, and play a crucial role
in the regulation of a wide range of research from social science
to epidemiology, vaccine and drugs trials to surgery. Based on
extensive observations, interviews, and archival research, this
book provides an in-depth insight into RECs, one of the most
crucial forms of regulation around medical research. In providing
one of the first empirical examinations of this kind of regulation,
this book challenges the impersonal, de-socialised, and mechanical
models of REC decision-making. -- .
Every month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom
decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients
within the NHS. These groups - Research Ethics Committees (RECs) -
made up of doctors, nurses, researchers, and members of the general
public - help shape the future of medicine, and play a crucial role
in the regulation of a wide range of research from social science
to epidemiology, vaccine and drugs trials to surgery. Based on
extensive observations, interviews, and archival research, this
book provides an in-depth insight into RECs, one of the most
crucial forms of regulation around medical research. In providing
one of the first empirical examinations of this kind of regulation,
this book challenges the impersonal, de-socialised, and mechanical
models of REC decision-making. -- .
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.
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.
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