TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyson,Simon
TI  - Sickle cell and the social sciences: health, racism and disablement
T2  - Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
SN  - 9780367702670
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Sickle cell
KW  - Race
N2  - 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. Tackling the controversial role of screening and genetics in SCD, the book offers a brief thematic history of approaches to the condition, queries the role of ethnicity and includes a discussion of how the social model of disability can be applied, as well as featuring chapters focusing on athletics, prisons and schools
ER  -