• Login
    View Item 
    •   DORA Home
    • Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
    • School of Allied Health Sciences
    • View Item
    •   DORA Home
    • Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
    • School of Allied Health Sciences
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Midwives and screening for haemoglobin disorders.

    Thumbnail
    Date
    2001-07
    Author
    Dyson, Simon
    Metadata
    Show attachments and full item record
    Abstract
    This chapter raises the issue of ethnicity in relation to selective screening for haemoglobin disorders such as sickle cell and beta-thalassaemia. The chapter begins with a description of sickle cell and thalassaemia, outlines some background to issues surrounding selective ante-natal screening for haemoglobin disorders, and reports on the problematic nature of ethnic categories apparently in use in effecting such selectivity. The chapter then examines possible pragmatic strategies available to health care workers, including taking cues about ethnicity of clients from skin colour, names, geographical origins, unspecified combinations of these three, from an imposition of the U.K. Census categories, or by asking the client. Each in turn is felt to present certain problems with regard to the haemoglobin disorders. A number of strategies are proposed. One is to document the social encounter whereby ethnic categorization is socially constructed by health care workers. Others include combining asking for clients' self-defined ethnicity in tandem with an open explanation of the haemoglobin disorder-specific reason for which the information is being sought.
    Description
    Citation : Dyson, SM. (2001) Midwives and screening for haemoglobin disorders. In: Culley, L. and Dyson, SM (eds) Ethnicity and Nursing Practice Basingstoke: Palgrave pp.149-167
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2086/2767
    ISBN : 0-333-75331-3
    Research Group : Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell
    Research Group : Mary Seacole Research Centre
    Research Institute : Institute for Allied Health Sciences Research
    Collections
    • School of Allied Health Sciences [1415]

    Submission Guide | Reporting Guide | Reporting Tool | DMU Open Access Libguide | Take Down Policy | Connect with DORA
    DMU LIbrary
     

     

    Browse

    All of DORACommunities & CollectionsAuthorsTitlesSubjects/KeywordsResearch InstituteBy Publication DateBy Submission DateThis CollectionAuthorsTitlesSubjects/KeywordsResearch InstituteBy Publication DateBy Submission Date

    My Account

    Login

    Submission Guide | Reporting Guide | Reporting Tool | DMU Open Access Libguide | Take Down Policy | Connect with DORA
    DMU LIbrary