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C O N T E N T S List of Illustrations viii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxv One Introduction: The Powers of Association 1 Two Healthy Sicklers with “Mild” Disease: Local Illness Affects and Population-Level Effects 45 Three The Biosocial Politics of Plants and People 77 Four Attitudes of Care 119 Five Localized Biologies: Mapping Race and Sickle Cell Difference in French West Africa 158 Six Ordering Illness: Heterozygous “Trait” Suffering in the Land of the Mild Disease 197 Seven The Work of Patient Advocacy 221 Conclusion Economic and Health Futures amid Hope and Despair 250 Notes 275 References 307 Index 329 ...