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MOTHERHOOD AND THE OBFUSCATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE:

1994-03-01

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This study examines how low-income African American mothers of children with sickle cell disease (SCD) cope with the reproductive implications of having passed a genetic disease on to their children. Based on in-depth interviews with 29 African American mothers, I found that most mothers knew about SCD prior to having a child with the disease; many knew they were carriers of the sickle cell trait. In explaining wh...

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Literature Corpus work: 6eafc71d-f830-5f3e-b63d-f23b2f10c116
DOI: 10.1177/089124394008001003

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