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020			_a9780367702670
020			_a9781138298392
060			_aWH 170
100	1		_aDyson, Simon
245			_aSickle cell and the social sciences : _bhealth, racism and disablement
260			_aAbingdon : _bTaylor and Francis, _c2020
300			_aix, 241p
490			_aRoutledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
520			_aSickle 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.
650			_aSickle cell
650			_aRace
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