Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xxv
6. Chapter one. Introduction: The Powers of Association 1
7. Chapter two. Healthy Sicklers with “Mild” Disease: Local Illness Affects and Population- Level Effects 45
8. Chapter three. The Biosocial Politics of Plants and People 77
9. Chapter four. Attitudes of Care 119
10. Chapter five. Localized Biologies: Mapping Race and Sickle Cell Difference in French West Africa 158
11. Chapter six. Ordering Illness: Heterozygous “Trait” Suffering in the Land of the Mild Disease 197
12. Chapter seven. The Work of Patient Advocacy 221
13. Conclusion. Economic and Health Futures amid Hope and Despair 250
14. Notes 275
15. References 307
16. Index 329