The enculturated gene sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / [electronic resource] :
Duana Fullwiley.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
- xxviii, 340 p. : ill.
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.
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