Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences
Health, Racism and Disablement
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 medical care is available only in attenuated forms in Africa, India and to socio-economically disadvantaged groups in North America and Europe.Often a condition rendered invisible in policy terms because of its problematic association with politically ma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-58084-7
- EAN: 9781351580847
- Produktnummer: 30867303
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'229 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 7 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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.
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