Tag: Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

June 2, 2014

June Author Events: The Collapse of Western Civilization, Blacklists, Wine, and More!

Author events this month include appearances from around the world and range from the collapse of Western civilization to wine: Naomi Oreskes, co-author of The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future will talk about the book with...

June 21, 2013

Donna Dickenson: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

“Under the pressure of corporate interests and neoliberal policies, we’ve lost sight of the idea of the commons in biomedicine—but it has only disappeared temporarily from view. Reclaiming biotechnology for the greater good will involve resurrecting the commons.”—Donna Dickenson In...

June 20, 2013

Donna Dickenson on How Neoliberalism Is Shaping Science and Medicine

“Who would have predicted twenty years ago that you could get people to pay to … have a spit sample ana­lyzed to predict their personal propensity to common diseases?”—Donna Dickenson, Me Medicine vs. We Medicine In the following excerpt from...

June 19, 2013

Donna Dickenson, author of Me Medicine vs. We Medicine, Takes the Page 99 Test

“We risk losing sight of the common good in biotechnology—what I call ‘We Medicine’—in our haste to embrace personalized healthcare.”–Donna Dickenson The Page 99 Test asks authors to turn to page 99 in their books and explain how the page...

June 18, 2013

Donna Dickenson — Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

“I ask this crucial question: how did we move from what was originally presented as a communitarian vision for the new genetic biomedicine to the now-dominant personalized medicine paradigm?”—Donna Dickenson The following post is by Donna Dickenson, author of Me...

May 28, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Me Medicine, Nutritionism, German Jihad, Immigrant New York, and More New Titles

New titles now available: Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good Donna Dickenson Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice Gyorgy Scrinis German Jihad: On the Internationalization of Islamist Terrorism Guido W. Steinberg One Out...