Umfang:
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780691123172
,
9780691123165
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-328) and index
,
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.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
Schlagwort(e):
Westafrika
;
Senegalesen
;
Sichelzellenanämie
;
Gesundheitspolitik
;
Ethnomedizin
