Open Medicine Netbook

Open Medicine as presented here combines elements of participatory medicine, evidence-based medicine and open science, in the linked open access netbook format. This evolving set of articles explores these questions in terms of both theory and practice.


Personalized Health Experiments to Optimize Well-Being and Enable Scientific Discovery (Ian Eslick)

Build Your Own Lab: Do-It-Yourself Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech-Economies (Morgan Meyer)

Health 2050: The Realization of Personalized Medicine through Crowdsourcing, the Quantified Self, and the Participatory Biocitizen (Melanie Swan)

Bionetworking over DNA and biosocial interfaces: Connecting policy and design (Denisa Kera)

Common Genomes: Open Source in Biotechnology and the Return of Common Property (Eric Deibel)

Tweaking Genes in Your Garage: Biohacking between Activism and Entrepreneurship (Alessandro Delfanti)

Self-Tracking for Distinguishing Evidence-Based Protocols in Optimizing Human Performance and Treating Chronic Illness (Janet Chang)

The Growth of Personal Science: Implications for Statistics (Seth Roberts)

Designing a post-genomics knowledge ecosystem to translate pharmacogenomics into public health action (Edward S Dove)

Participant-Centric Initiatives: Tools to Facilitate Engagement In Research (Nicholas Anderson, Caleb Bragg, Andrea Hartzler, Kelly Edwards)

DIY Biology (Bart Penders)

A Genome Blogger Manifesto - (Manuel Corpas)

Power to the People: Participant Ownership of Clinical Trial Data (Sharon F. Terry and Patrick F. Terry)

Aesthetic Biology, Biological Art (Eugene Thacker)

Are all evidence-based practices alike? Problems in the ranking of evidence (Ross Upshur)

Outlaws, Hackers, Victorian Amateurs: Diagnosing Public Participation in the Life Sciences Today (Christopher Kelty)

Personalized Investigation (Elie Dolgin)