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

Title: The enculturated gene [electronic resource] : 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

1 online resource (xxviii, 340 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Enculturated gene (Online)

Alternative Title

Enculturated gene (Online)

Subject

Sickle cell anemia > Social aspects > Senegal
Sickle cell anemia > Genetic aspects
Sickle cell anemia > Patients > Services for > Senegal
Genetic disorders > Social aspects > Senegal
Kinship > Health aspects > Senegal

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-328) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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