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The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa
- Title
- The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley.
- Author
- Fullwiley, Duana.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xxviii, 340 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Genetic disorders > Social aspects > Senegal
- Politics > Senegal
- Sickle cell anemia > Genetic aspects
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Senegal
- Kinship > Health aspects > Senegal
- Socioeconomic Factors > Senegal
- Sickle cell anemia > Patients > Services for > Senegal
- Black author
- Anthropology, Medical > methods > Senegal
- Anemia, Sickle Cell > genetics > Senegal
- Family > Senegal
- Sickle cell anemia > Social aspects > Senegal
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-328) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-345
- ISBN
- 9780691123165 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 0691123160 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9780691123172 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0691123179 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2011017413
- OCLC
- 722842898
- Author
- Fullwiley, Duana.
- Title
- The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-328) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-345