The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / / Duana Fullwiley
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| Autore: |
Fullwiley Duana
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| Titolo: |
The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / / Duana Fullwiley
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| 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 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4008-4041-4 |
| 9786613290939 | |
| 1-283-29093-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812110303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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