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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, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2012.

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Description
340 p. : ill, maps; 24 cm.
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.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780691123165 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0691123160 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780691123172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0691123179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011017413
OCLC
  • ocn722842898
  • SCSB-9717905
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library