The enculturated gene sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa /

Main Author: Fullwiley, Duana.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10503237
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245 1 4 |a The enculturated gene  |b sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa /  |c Duana Fullwiley. 
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300 |a xxviii, 340 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Sickle cell anemia  |x Social aspects  |z Senegal. 
650 0 |a Sickle cell anemia  |x Genetic aspects. 
650 0 |a Sickle cell anemia  |x Patients  |z Senegal.  |x Services for 
650 0 |a Genetic disorders  |x Social aspects  |z Senegal. 
650 0 |a Kinship  |x Health aspects  |z Senegal. 
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