TY - BOOK AU - Fullwiley,Duana ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The enculturated gene: sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa AV - RA645.S53 F85 2011 U1 - 362.196/15271009663 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Sickle cell anemia KW - Social aspects KW - Senegal KW - Genetic aspects KW - Patients KW - Services for KW - Genetic disorders KW - Kinship KW - Health aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=784516 ER -