ArticleSociology of health & illness2021
A sociology of precision-in-practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care.
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- Hopes, concerns, satisfaction and regret in a precision medicine trial for childhood cancer: a mixed-methods study of parent and patient perspectives.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Determinants of targeted cancer therapy use in community oncology practice: a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework and Rummler-Brache process mapping.Implementation science communications · 2023Article
- Hope in the era of precision oncology: a qualitative study of informal caregivers' experiences.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Organizing precision medicine: A case study of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's engagement in/with genomics.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Approaches in Post-Experimental Science. The Case of Precision Medicine.Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte · 2022Article
- Personalising clinical pathways in a London breast cancer service.Sociology of health & illness · 2022Article
- "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
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Abstract
The idea of 'precision medicine', which has gained increasing traction since the early 2000s, is now ubiquitous in health and medicine. Though varied in its implementation across fields, precision medicine has raised hopes of revolutionary treatments and has spurred the proliferation of novel therapeutics, the alteration of professional trajectories and various reconfigurations of health/care. Nowhere is the promise of precision medicine more apparent, nor further institutionalised, than in the field of oncology. While the transformative potential of precision medicine is widely taken for granted, there remains scant attention to how it is being experienced at the coalface of care. Here, drawing on the perspectives of 54 cancer care professionals gleaned through eight focus group discussions in two hospitals in Australia, we explore clinicians' experiences of the day-to-day dynamics of precision-in-practice. We illustrate some of the affective and temporal complexities, analysed here under the rubrics of enchantment, acceleration and distraction that are emerging alongside the uptake of precision medicine in the field of oncology. We argue that these complexities, and their dis/continuities with earlier iterations of cancer care, demonstrate the need for sociological analyses of precision medicine as it is being implemented in practice and its varied effects on 'routine' care.
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