Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Brings together an interdisciplinary group of expert scholars on the timely issue of precision oncology
- Proposes a highly reflexive and critical perspective on precision oncology by going beyond the common perceived goodness
- Takes a unique actor-centred approach allowing new insights into how imagine and work with this concept
Part of the book series: Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology (HPHST, volume 5)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific challenges and economic trade-offs, the need for new policies, further technological innovation, social work, as well as phenomenological research.
This volume takes a broad actor-centred perspective as, whenever cancer is present, the range of actors with issues at stake appears almost unlimited. This perspective and approach opens up the possibility for further in-depth and diverse questions, posed by the actors themselves, such as: How are cancer researchers navigating biological uncertainties? How do clinicians and policy-makers address ethical dilemmas around prioritisationof care? What are the patients’ experiences with, and hopes for, precision oncology? How do policy-makers and entrepreneurs envisage precision oncology? These questions are of great interest to a broad audience, including cancer researchers, oncologists, policy-makers, medical ethicists and philosophers, social scientists, patients and health economists.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Roger Strand is Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities and the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. At CCBIO, Strand is the Principal Investigator for Team 4 that researches ethical and societal aspects of cancer biomarkers and cancer research. Originally trained as a natural scientist (PhD, biochemistry 1998), Strand developed research interests in the philosophy of science and has worked on issues of scientific uncertainty and complexity, including the theory of post-normal science. This hasgradually led his research into broader strands of social research, philosophy and broader issues of policy, decision-making and governance at the science-society interface. He has coordinated two EU FP7 projects (TECHNOLIFE and EPINET), which both addressed the need for more dynamic governance of science in society. He was a member of the National Research Ethics Committee for Science and Technology in Norway (2006-2013) and Chair of the European Commission Expert Group on Indicators for Responsible Research and Innovation (2014-2015). He is one of the Directors of the European Centre for Governance in Complexity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers
Book Subtitle: Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern
Editors: Anne Bremer, Roger Strand
Series Title: Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92612-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92611-3Published: 29 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92614-4Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92612-0Published: 29 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2661-8915
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 281
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Bioethics, Cancer Research, Public Health, Health Economics