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Robert A. Aronowitz is professor and chair of the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (2015).
In place of the hype over personalized medicine, we need a more sober evaluation of the meaning of health and health care.
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