Territory, ancestry and descent: The politics of sickle cell disease

Sociology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 963-976

  Carter, Bob ^a   Dyson, Simon M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ancestry; ethnicity; genetics; popular science; sickle cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755229552     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038511416159     Document Type: Review

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