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Author Fullwiley, Duana, author

Title The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell "mild" in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced people to imp
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-305, 307-328) and index
Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed January 27, 2014)
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
Genetic disorders.
Families.
Nuclear families.
Politics, Practical.
Anemia, Sickle Cell -- genetics
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Socioeconomic Factors
Family
Politics
Anthropology, Medical -- methods
Nuclear Family
politics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Politics, Practical
Nuclear families
Genetic disorders
Families
Genetic disorders -- Social aspects
Sickle cell anemia -- Genetic aspects
Sickle cell anemia -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Senegal
Subject Senegal
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011017413
ISBN 9781400840410
1400840414
1283290936
9781283290937