Managing Sickle Cell Disease In Low-Income Families

Presents a comprehensive account of sickle cell disease (SCD) and its affect on low-income families. This book examines how low-income African American mothers with children suffering from this hereditary, incurable, and chronically painful disease, react to the diagnosis and manage their family's health care.

About the author

Shirley A. Hill is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Her most recent book is African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families.

Summary

Presents a comprehensive account of sickle cell disease (SCD) and its affect on low-income families. This book examines how low-income African American mothers with children suffering from this hereditary, incurable, and chronically painful disease, react to the diagnosis and manage their family's health care.

Product details

• Authors: Shirley A. Hill, Shirley Hill
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.04.2003
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
• EAN: 9781592131952
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-195-2
• Dimensions (packing): 14.1 x 20.9 x 1.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 277 g
• Series: Health Society And Policy; Health Society and Policy
• Subjects: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Krankheit und Sucht: soziale Aspekte, Krankheiten und Störungen, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Hematology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability