Sickle Cell Disease: Chapter Summary

The core reading for this week included an excerpt that read “…the first cases of sickle cell disease were mostly amongst Africans and African Caribbeans. Racial thinking led to the assumption that sickle cell disease was a ‘Black disease’, even though many African people are not at risk for these disease and many carriers are not African” (Russell, 2014, p. 69). This, for me, was very insightful and enlightening, as it presents a way of thinking that is not common or taught in our society. It brought me to the realisation that our society has conditioned us to believe that ‘racial diseases’ could be a real thing, when in actuality, ‘racial diseases’ is simply a notion derived from migration. There have been so many instances wherein certain