Personalized medicine in context: social science perspectives

Perspectives of personalized medicine in traditional persian medicine

The approach of personalized medicine has received a great deal of attention over the last century, emphasizing attention to the patient rather than the disease. Personalized medicine tries to plan the patient's condition and treatment method by considering the culture, personal preferences and experiences and health beliefs of the person as well as the values and lifestyle of the person, and e...

Social Science in Medicine

In these times, when our social and political inadequacies in dealing with the advances wrought by nuclear fission are so apparent, it is encouraging to find that forward-looking men in medicine and the social sciences are working together to bridge that gap between their respective fields of interest. Although the authors point out that the practice of medicine at large or in the hospital in p...

Social Science in Medicine

Medicine. By Leo W. Simmons fe? Harold G. Wolff. New York, 1954. Russell Sage Foundation. $3.50. 254 pp. Medical and public interest has formerly been focussed more on bacteriological and pharmacological advances and the result has been inevitably some neglect of the patient as a person; the pendulum is now swinging back and it is somewhat ironic that it has been necessary to invent a new term?...

Context-Enhanced Personalized Social Summarization

This work investigates an interesting and challenging task in summarization, i.e., personalized social summarization, which aims to adapt summarization result of a specified document to an intended user based on his interests inferred from social context implicitly. Most existing summarization systems generate a uniform version of summary for different users no matter who is reading or generate...

Perspectives of Science in Iran