The enculturated gene
Subtitle: sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa
By: Duana Fullwiley
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780691123165; 9780691123172
Subjects: Patients; Genetic disorders; Sickle cell anemia; Genetic aspects; Services for; Kinship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the powers of association; title: Healthy sicklers with "mild" disease: local illness affects and population-level effects; title: The biosocial politics of plants and people; title: Attitudes of care; title: Localized biologies: mapping race and sickle cell difference in French West Africa; title: Ordering illness: heterozygous "trait" suffering in the land of the mild disease; title: The work of patient advocacy; title: Conclusion: economic and health futures amid hope and despair.