An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil
Aug 24, 2021
My research explores how patients, non-governmental organizations, and the Brazilian government, at state and federal levels, have contributed to the discourse of sickle cell disease (SCD) as a “black” disease, despite a prevailing cultural ideology of racial mixture. The concepts of race and race-associated health disparities are firmly planted in medical, public health, and scientific […]