Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxviii, 340 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Genetic disorders > Social aspects > Senegal
2. Politics > Senegal
3. Sickle cell anemia > Genetic aspects
4. Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Senegal
5. Kinship > Health aspects > Senegal
6. Socioeconomic Factors > Senegal
7. Sickle cell anemia > Patients > Services for > Senegal
8. Black author
9. Anthropology, Medical > methods > Senegal
10. Anemia, Sickle Cell > genetics > Senegal
11. Family > Senegal
12. Sickle cell anemia > Social aspects > Senegal

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc E 12-345

Bibliography (note)

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

Author

1. Fullwiley, Duana.

Title

1. The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley.

Imprint

1. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Bibliography

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

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2011017413

ISBN

1. 9780691123165 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2. 0691123160 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
3. 9780691123172 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
4. 0691123179 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 12-345