For all the talk about personalized medicine, our health care system remains a top-down, doctor-driven system where individuals are too often bit players in their own health decisions. In The Decision Tree, Thomas Goetz proposes a new strategy for thinking about health, one that applies cutting-edge technology to put us at the center of the equation and explains how the new frontier of health care can impact each of our lives.

THOMAS GOETZ is the executive editor of Wired magazine, where he has written several cover stories, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He holds a master's in public health and lives in San Francisco.