1st Edition
Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences Health, Racism and Disablement
By Simon Dyson
Copyright 2019
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe chronic illness and one of the world’s most common genetic conditions, with 400,000 children born annually with the disorder, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Brazil, the Middle East and in diasporic African populations in North America and Europe. Biomedical treatments for SCD are increasingly available to the world’s affluent populations, while such... Read more
Introduction
1. Sickle Cell and the Simplifications of Science
2. Why Genes are not "For" Sickle Cell
3. A Social History of Sickle Cell Part I: Sickle Cell and Malaria
4. A Social History of Sickle Cell Part II: Politics and Molecules
5. Sickle Cell and Athletes
6. Sickle Cell and Deaths in State Custody
7. Ethnicity and Sickle Cell
8. Genetic Carriers and Antenatal Screening
9. Newborn Screening
10. SCD and the Social Model of Disability
11. Sickle Cell and Social Policy: The Case of SCD and Schools
Conclusion
Biography
Simon Dyson is Professor of Applied Sociology and Director of the Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell at De Montfort University, UK.
