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Genetics and Global Public Health - Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (Hardcover)
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Genetics and Global Public Health - Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (Hardcover)
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Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among the world's most common
genetic conditions. They are especially common in Africa, Brazil,
the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia. They affect all ethnic
groups but they particularly impact on minority ethnic groups in
North America, Europe and Australasia. Much research has focused on
clinical, laboratory and genetic studies of these conditions.
Through a wide-ranging selection of readings based on social
scientific research into sickle cell and thalassaemia, this book
seeks to redress this imbalance. This is important as, through an
examination of the different social, economic and cultural contexts
of the lives of people living with sickle cell or thalassaemia, the
contributors demonstrate that people are more than the sum of their
genes and that their life experiences are rarely derived solely
from the clinical severity of their condition but depend on the
social context of their lives. Genetics and Global Public Health
presents a new concluding chapter which highlights the critical
nature of social science research for sickle cell and thalassaemia
communities, providing key insights into the social contexts of
human behaviour and analysing how societal arrangements could
change to assist people living with either condition. It will be of
great interest to postgraduate and research students as well as
professionals working in the field of public health. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethnicity
and Health.
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