The Enculturated Gene : : Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa / / Duana Fullwiley.
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 Senegal...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter one. Introduction: The Powers of Association
- Chapter two. Healthy Sicklers with "Mild" Disease: Local Illness Affects and Population- Level Effects
- Chapter three. The Biosocial Politics of Plants and People
- Chapter four. Attitudes of Care
- Chapter five. Localized Biologies: Mapping Race and Sickle Cell Difference in French West Africa
- Chapter six. Ordering Illness: Heterozygous "Trait" Suffering in the Land of the Mild Disease
- Chapter seven. The Work of Patient Advocacy
- Conclusion. Economic and Health Futures amid Hope and Despair
- Notes
- References
- Index