Managing Sickle Cell Disease (Health Society And Policy)

Features of Managing Sickle Cell Disease (Health Society And Policy)

Hill sociology U of Kansas examines how lowincome African American mothers with children suffering from sickle cell disease cope with the diagnosis and manage their familys health care She documents the daily lives of 32 mostly single mothers and their struggles to seek services and medical information and their coping strategies such as sharing child care Includes excerpts from interviews shedding light on the role of class race and gender in the illness experience Annotation copyright Book News Inc Portland Or