
Uncertain Precision
Managing Health Care with Personalized Technologies
Reed E. Pyeritz(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Will be published approx. on 8. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-19-779629-0 (ISBN)
Description
The future of precision health care is being driven by the increasingly rapid evolution of technologies. Over the past century, health care has benefited tremendously from the steady introduction of new tools, such as imaging, vaccines, immunology, biochemical analysis, and drug development; more recently, emerging technologies have arisen rapidly, undergone swift validation, and experienced prompt application. However, these technologies and their results have uncertainties and impact all facets of precision patient management.
Uncertain Precision: Managing Health Care with Personalized Technologies provides an in-depth overview of precision medicine and its relationship with new technology, examining its current scope, benefits, and limitations. While new medical technologies can identify many individual traits that establish diagnoses, predict the course of illness, and recommend therapies, the tools and their results have uncertainties that the health care professional must anticipate and recognize.
Utilizing clinical examples from his own experience and insights from colleagues and other experts, Dr. Reed E. Pyeritz discusses key technologies, such as genome sequencing, artificial intelligence, targeting a patient's immune cells to cancer, and gene therapies. Timely and compelling, Uncertain Precision is an essential resource for anyone interested in the future of health care and the role of precision medicine in delivering tailored medical solutions.
Uncertain Precision: Managing Health Care with Personalized Technologies provides an in-depth overview of precision medicine and its relationship with new technology, examining its current scope, benefits, and limitations. While new medical technologies can identify many individual traits that establish diagnoses, predict the course of illness, and recommend therapies, the tools and their results have uncertainties that the health care professional must anticipate and recognize.
Utilizing clinical examples from his own experience and insights from colleagues and other experts, Dr. Reed E. Pyeritz discusses key technologies, such as genome sequencing, artificial intelligence, targeting a patient's immune cells to cancer, and gene therapies. Timely and compelling, Uncertain Precision is an essential resource for anyone interested in the future of health care and the role of precision medicine in delivering tailored medical solutions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-779629-0 (9780197796290)
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Person
Reed E. Pyeritz is the William Smilow Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Emeritus, at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. from the University of Delaware, a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. His clinical practice focuses on adults with hereditary disorders, especially of the cardiovascular system. His research contributed to the lifespan of people with Marfan syndrome improving from the mid-forties to the seventies. Long interested in medical economics and ethics, he has studied the professional obligations of providers of genetics services and the financial influences that limit access. He has published over 700 research studies, reviews, and chapters, and co-edits Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Author
William Smilow Professor of Medicine and Genetics, EmeritusWilliam Smilow Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Emeritus, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Content
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Personalized Medicine Cannot Always be Precise, But Precision Medicine Must Always Be Personalized
- 3. Uncertainty as a Fact of Life
- 4. Uncertainty Pervades All Healthcare
- 5. Artificial Intelligence: Origins, Applications and Challenges
- 6. How Artificial Intelligence Enhances Healthcare
- 7. Our -Omics
- 8. Our Genomes
- 9. Exploring Our Genes
- 10. Faster, Higher, Stronger: Uncertainties in Athletics
- 11. Is Ageing a Terminal Disease?
- 12. Future Casting
- 13. Departing Thoughts