Inside todays datadriven personalized medicine and the time effort and information required from patients to make it a realityMedicine has been personal long before the concept of personalized medicine became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other contributed to medical research and advocated for new treatments. Given this history why has the notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the beginning of the new millennium Personalized Medicine investigates the recent movement for patients involvement in how they are treated diagnosed and medicated a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive wellinformed participants in their own healthcare.While it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or alternatively are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation Barbara Prainsack challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can give rise to a technologyfocused individualism yet also present new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future this book reveals how medicine informed by digital quantified and computable information is already changing the personalization movement providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or ailments are shared and discussed in society. Bringing together empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine public health data governance bioethics and digital sociology Personalized Medicine analyzes the challenges of personalization driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground the needs and interests of patients instead of being ruled by them.