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Journal Article
What's in a word? The person of personalized (nano)medicine
2015
Overview
Personalized medicine has recently become a main goal for healthcare policy. It is often defined as the tailoring of diagnosis and therapies to the genetic profile of each patient, and as such it is supposed to overcome the major thorny issues at stake in biomedicine today. This challenging program is primarily carried out by new approaches in biomedical imaging, molecular analysis, drug delivery and follow-up, taking more and more advantage of nanotechnology. However, in current literature and debates, the term 'personalized medicine' appears to be polysemous. The paper examines this polysemy. It links it to rival epistemic and technological choices in research programs, and it finally argues that this techno-epistemic plurality echoes conflicting expectations and values among today's biomedicine actors.
