The enculturated gene [electronic resource] : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley.

By: Fullwiley, DuanaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011Description: xxviii, 340 p. : illISBN: 9781400840410 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Sickle cell anemia -- Social aspects -- Senegal | Sickle cell anemia -- Genetic aspects | Sickle cell anemia -- Patients -- Services for -- Senegal | Genetic disorders -- Social aspects -- Senegal | Kinship -- Health aspects -- SenegalGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.196/15271009663 LOC classification: RA645.S53 | F85 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: the powers of association -- Healthy sicklers with "mild" disease: local illness affects and population-level effects -- The biosocial politics of plants and people -- Attitudes of care -- Localized biologies: mapping race and sickle cell difference in French West Africa -- Ordering illness: heterozygous "trait" suffering in the land of the mild disease -- The work of patient advocacy -- Conclusion: economic and health futures amid hope and despair.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the powers of association -- Healthy sicklers with "mild" disease: local illness affects and population-level effects -- The biosocial politics of plants and people -- Attitudes of care -- Localized biologies: mapping race and sickle cell difference in French West Africa -- Ordering illness: heterozygous "trait" suffering in the land of the mild disease -- The work of patient advocacy -- Conclusion: economic and health futures amid hope and despair.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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