Pharmacogenomics may sound a bit daunting, but Nathaniel Comfort at the Center for History of Recent Science at George Washington University is having no trouble reading up on genomics and pharmacology for his next project, the history of genetic medicine. He’s tackling Pharmacogenomics: The search for individualized therapies edited by Julio Licinio and Ma-Li Wong (Wiley, 2002) and Pharmacogenomics edited by Werner Kalow, Urs Meyer and Rachel Tyndale (Marcel Dekker, 2001). They report back from the front line of what could be a major transformation of medicine, he says.
For fun he’s reading two books that explore science’s role…
