... The genomics revolution, in which Dr. Snyderman had participated at Genentech with the sequencing of the human genome was going to transform medicine by allowing it to be more personalized and preventative. Dr. Snyderman envisioned a bold new approach termed personalized health care . Duke...

... Genomic Revolution Duke Prospective Health Care Personalized Health Care Personalized Medicine New models of health care ...

... Leadership Managing in times of rapid change Personalized Health Care Stepping down as Chancellor Victor J. Dzau MD ...

... Dr. Snyderman stepped down as Chancellor after his third five-year term in June 2004. In the ten years since, he has actively advocated for new models for health care. He learned many lessons from his 15-year experience, some professional and some personal—but perhaps above all, he learned...

... personalized and preventative. Dr. Snyderman envisioned a bold new approach termed personalized health care . Duke foresaw this and pioneered programs in personalized medicine. Perverse reimbursement incentives made broad application untenable. However, Duke’s efforts were nationally noted and spurred...

... standards. Ordinary medicine shapes our most personal experiences of growing older and ultimately undermines medicine’s ability to function as a social good. medical anthropology aging society ethics and politics of health care values health care system ...

... In this personal essay, the author witnesses a newborn baby’s struggle for survival in a clinic in Patna. This experience and similar others is used to discuss the pressing issue of poverty and dire health-care conditions in the author’s birthplace. The essay is also a meditation on home...

... stepped down as Chancellor after his third five-year term in June 2004. In the ten years since, he has actively advocated for new models for health care. He learned many lessons from his 15-year experience, some professional and some personal—but perhaps above all, he learned that the distinction between...

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...II This chapter challenges common views of narrative as externalizing interior states or representing events by demonstrating how narratives are coproduced with acts of care. It uses Walter Benjamin’s work to suggest that the labor of care and of health/communicative labor are coproduced...

...Medicine’s Changing Means and Ends This chapter shows how the press for new technologies in U.S. health care complicates the goals of medical practice in our aging society. It examines three types of treatment—the implantable cardiac defibrillator, kidney dialysis, and liver transplantation...

... travel writing In this personal essay, the author witnesses a newborn baby’s struggle for survival in a clinic in Patna. This experience and similar others is used to discuss the pressing issue of poverty and dire health-care conditions in the author’s birthplace. The essay is also a meditation...

... into Rosemarie’s reflection about her choice of social work as a profession and the need for changes in our nation’s budget priorities toward livable wages for everyone, high quality child care, and universal health care. social work welfare well-groomed children Illinois Department of Social Services...

... communities to protect themselves and each other. The health sector adopted a similar discourse compatible with a long-standing tradition of biomedical individualism by calling upon people as rational, calculating actors in a field of risk. The limits and side effects of the responsibilizing paradigm...