A new paperback Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge is published in April 2021.
Picture of Front Cover of Book Sickle Cell and Social Sciences
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SICKLE CELL AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Sickle Cell and the Simplifications of Science
- Why Genes are not “For” Sickle Cell
- A Long History of Sickle Cell: Sickle Cell and Malaria
- A Short History of Sickle Cell: The Twentieth Century in the US
- Sickle Cell and Athletes
- Sickle Cell and Deaths in State Custody
- Ethnicity and Sickle Cell
- Genetic Carriers and Antenatal Screening
- Newborn Screening (Ghana)
- SCD and the Social Model of Disability (Nigeria)
- Sickle Cell and Social Policy: The Case of SCD and Schools
Conclusion
Epilogue (Sickle Cell, Climate Change and Mass Migration)
22 Figures and Photographs
7 Tables