The enculturated gene : sickle cell health politics and biological difference in West Africa / Duana Fullwiley.

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011], ©2011.

xxviii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-328) and index.

Introduction: the powers of association -- Healthy sicklers with "mild" disease: local illness affects and population-level effects -- The biosocial politics of plants and people -- Attitudes of care -- Localized biologies: mapping race and sickle cell difference in French West Africa -- Ordering illness: heterozygous "trait" suffering in the land of the mild disease -- The work of patient advocacy -- Conclusion: economic and health futures amid hope and despair.