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‘Who's the guy in the room?’ Involving fathers in antenatal care screening for sickle cell disorders
(Elsevier, 2015-01-22)
Fathers are increasingly invited to take part in antenatal care of which screening for sickle cell trait is a part. Expectations about involvement reflect changing perceptions of fatherhood and negotiation of gendered ...
Living with Sickle Cell Disease and Depression in Lagos, Nigeria: A Mixed Methods Study
(Elsevier, 2016-05-20)
Sickle cell disorders (SCD) and depression are both chronic illnesses of global significance. Past research on SCD and depression struggles to make sense of statistical associations, essentializes depression within the ...
Involving Fathers in Ante-Natal Screening for Sickle Cell Disorders: Improving Informed Decision-Making
(University of York, 2014)
There are many reasons why fathers find it difficult to be involved in ante-natal screening for sickle cell disorders. Some are the consequence of disadvantage and inequalities, others are associated with how services are ...
Resignifing the sickle cell gene: narratives of genetic risk, impairment and repair
(Sage, 2015-07-24)
Connecting theoretical discussion with empirical qualitative work, this paper examines how sickle cell became a site of public health intervention in terms of ‘racialised’ risks. Historically, sickle cell became socio-politically ...
"We di woman den, na we di suffer"
(De Montfort University, 2019-06-19)
Sierra Leone is thought to be one of the West African countries most affected by sickle cell disorders. Estimates state that one in four people carry the gene for sickle cell and between 1 to 2% of births are of children ...
Sickle Cell, Work and Employment: A Guide for Employers and Employees on Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD)
(De Montfort University, 2019-09-01)
Work, Employment and Sickle Cell
This guide is based on research examining the experiences of people with sickle cell disorder (SCD) in work and employment in England. There are duties on employers under the 1996 Employment ...
Sickle cell, habitual dyspositions and fragile dispositions: young people with sickle cell at school.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03-04)
The experiences of young people living with a sickle cell disorder in schools in England are reported through a thematic analysis of forty interviews, using Bourdieu’s notions of field, capital and habitus. Young people ...
Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2019-04-15)
Sickle 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 ...
Sickle cell and thalassaemia: global public health issues come of age.
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-08)
It is with great pleasure that, as guest and current editor respectively, we introduce Ethnicity and Health’s collection on the haemoglobin disorders sickle cell and thalassaemia. Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among ...
Barriers and Enablers to Employment: Black Disabled Peoples Living with Sickle Cell Disorder Project.
(De Montfort University, 2019-02-01)
Final report of the Barriers and Enablers to Employment: Black Disabled Peoples Living with Sickle Cell Disorder Project.
