Territory, ancestry and descent: the politics of sickle cell disease.

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dc.contributor.authorCarter, Bob
dc.contributor.authorDyson, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-09T14:59:54Z
dc.date.available2012-01-09T14:59:54Z
dc.date.issued2011-12-20
dc.description.abstractSociologists have long questioned the naturalness and stability of ‘ethnic groups’, suggesting that a concern with how they are socially constituted is more appropriate. However, the example of genetically based medical conditions appears to challenge this by suggesting that, in certain cases, ancestry, territorial affiliation and identity may be linked objectively by genetics. The article uses the example of sickle cell disease (SCD) to examine this claim. After reviewing the difficulties associated with notions of ethnicity, the article develops an account of how SCD came to be seen as an ‘ethnic disease’, and how it came to play a major role in the stabilization of particular forms of group identity. It concludes by emphasizing the need for a critical view of popular notions of territory and group identification.en
dc.identifier.citationCarter, B. and Dyson, S.M. (2011) Territory, ancestry and descent: the politics of sickle cell disease. Sociology, 45 (6) pp. 963-976.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0038038511416159
dc.identifier.issn0038-0385
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/5492
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.ref2014.selected1366719837_9110680002072_22_4
dc.researchgroupUnit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cellen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute for Allied Health Sciences Researchen
dc.subjectancestryen
dc.subjectethnicityen
dc.subjectgeneticsen
dc.subjectpopular scienceen
dc.subjectsickle cellen
dc.subjectterritoryen
dc.titleTerritory, ancestry and descent: the politics of sickle cell disease.en
dc.typeArticleen

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