Genetics and Global Public Health : Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia

Dyson, Simon M. (EDT); Atkin, Karl (EDT)

ISBN 10: 113811118X / ISBN 13: 9781138111189

Edité par Routledge, 2017

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• Titre: Genetics and Global Public Health : Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 113811118X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781138111189
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: As New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Simon M. Dyson is Professor of Applied Sociology and Director of the Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell, De Montfort University, UK. He is author of Ethnicity and Screening for Sickle Cell/Thalassaemia (2005) and Sickle Cell and Deaths in Custody (2009, with Gwyneth Boswell).

Karl Atkin is a sociologist, and Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, UK. He is author of The Politics of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (2001, with Elizabeth Anionwu) and co-editor of Race and Social Policy (2012, with Gary Craig, Sangeeta Chattoo and Ronny Flynn).