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A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of "personalized medicine" at the center of American medicine. The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine - the tailoring of health care to our genomes - have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen.. In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine - essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives - and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present, revealing how politicians, influential federal scientists, biotech companies, and drug giants all rallied behind the genetic hype.