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The enculturated gene [[electronic resource] ] : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / / Duana Fullwiley



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Autore: Fullwiley Duana Visualizza persona
Titolo: The enculturated gene [[electronic resource] ] : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / / Duana Fullwiley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (727 p.)
Disciplina: 362.196/15271009663
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: Africa
African anthropology
African genetics
African sicklers
Albert Royer Children's Hospital
CNTS
Centre nationale de transfusion sanguine
DNA haplotypes
DNA sequences
HbAS
International Organization for the Fight against Sickle Cell
National Blood Transfusion Center
OILD
RFLP
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
Senegal
Senegalese attitudes
Senegalese sickle cell
alternative care
biological expressions
biosocial politics
culture
disease experiences
disease expression
economic austerity
economically triaged care
ethnic population purity
fagara
genetic difference
genetic sequence
geneticists
global health problems
global health
healing practices
health intervention
health
healthy sicklers
heterozygous sickle cell
low-tech strategy
multilateral institutions
normalization techniques
patient advocacy
political apathy
population
public health
public neglect
self-care
sickle cell DNA markers
sickle cell anemia
sickle cell gene
sickle cell research
sickle cell trait
sicklers
social networks
traditional plants
vitality
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: In the 1980's, 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
Titolo autorizzato: The enculturated gene  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4008-4041-4
9786613290939
1-283-29093-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453355503321
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