The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley.
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Fullwiley, Duana (författare)
- ISBN 9780691123172
- Publicerad: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
- Engelska xxviii, 340 pages
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- 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.
Ämnesord
- Anemi (sao)
- Genetiska sjukdomar (sao)
- Genetic disorders. (LCSH)
- Nuclear families. (LCSH)
- Families. (LCSH)
- Politics, Practical. (LCSH)
- Sickle cell anemia -- Social aspects -- Senegal. (LCSH)
- Sickle cell anemia -- Genetic aspects. (LCSH)
- Sickle cell anemia -- Patients -- Services for -- Senegal. (LCSH)
- Genetic disorders -- Social aspects -- Senegal. (LCSH)
- Kinship -- Health aspects -- Senegal. (LCSH)
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn (MeSH)
- Socioeconomic Factors (MeSH)
- Family (MeSH)
- Politics (MeSH)
- Nuclear Family (MeSH)
- Anemia, Sickle Cell -- genetics (MeSH)
- Anthropology, Medical -- methods (MeSH)
- Anemia (LCSH)
- Genetic disorders (LCSH)
- Senegal (sao)
- Senegal (MeSH)
Klassifikation
- RA645.S53 (LCC)
- 2011 L-636 (NLM)
- WH 170 (NLM)
- 362.19615271009663 (DDC)
- Vp (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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