ArticleNew genetics and society2019
Genomic research and the cancer clinic: uncertainty and expectations in professional accounts.
Article in New genetics and society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Precision cancer medicine and the doctor-patient relationship: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Pooled it
- Patient experience of uncertainty in cancer genomics: a systematic review.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2020Pooled it
- The relationship between uncertainty and trust in genomic medicine and research: A literature review and thematic analysis.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2026Review
- Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2026Article
- Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Unsettling the treatment imperative? Chemotherapy decision-making in the wake of genomic techniques.Sociology of health & illness · 2023Article
- Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic.Social studies of science · 2023Article
- "Doing Good" in U.S. Cancer Genomics? Valuation practices across the boundaries of research and care in rural community oncology.New genetics and society · 2022Article
- A sociology of precision-in-practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care.Sociology of health & illness · 2021Article
- Diagnostic layering: Patient accounts of breast cancer classification in the molecular era.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Patienthood and participation in the digital era.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
This paper explores clinicians' and scientists' accounts of genomic research in cancer care and the complexities and challenges involved with delivering this work. Contributing to the sociology of (low) expectations, we draw on sociological studies of uncertainty in medicine to explore their accounts of working with uncertainty as part of the management of patient and institutional expectations. We consider their appeals to the importance of modest inquiry and framing of the uncertainties of genomic medicine as normal and at times welcome as they sought to configure professional autonomy and jurisdictions and cultivate an experimental ethos amongst their patients. We argue that these types of uncertainty work [Star, S. L. 1985. "Scientific Work and Uncertainty."
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