
Professor Simon M Dyson
Current affiliation: De Montfort University
Subject: Sociology
Primary location: United Kingdom
Fathers and Sickle Cell Screening
Published in:Sociology
Publication date:2015-02-03What's it about?In the UK, fathers from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds have multiple pressures to do with resisting racism, countering gender stereotypes of...
Sickle Cell Trait is About More Than Reproductive Choice
Published in:Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine
Publication date:2016-08-19What's it about?Previous research has looked at how people create narratives (tell stories) to help them come to terms with chronic illness. Based on in-depth inte...
Why a School Policy for Sickle Cell is Needed
Published in:Social Science & Medicine
Publication date:2010-06-01What's it about?The research based on questionnaires with 569 young people with sickle cell disease and 40 in-depth interviews found young people reporitng they we...
Wider Racism Impacts Sickle Cell in School
Published in:Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publication date:2013-07-26
Young People with Sickle Cell Made Ill at School
Published in:British Educational Research Journal
Publication date:2010-02-01What's it about?Young people with SCD miss considerable time from school, on average 16 days a year, a level that exceeds the 15 days beyond which schools and loca...
Sickle Cell in School: Understanding Conflicting Demands
Published in:Sociology of Health & Illness
Publication date:2011-03-01Sickle cell, habitual dys-positions and fragile dispositions
What's it about?Young people with SCD are found to be habitually dys-positioned between the demands of the clinic for health maintenance through self-care, and the...
Sickle Cell Trait and US Athletics
Published in:Social Theory & Health
Publication date:2015-01-28
Living with sickle cell disease and depression in Lagos, Nigeria: A mixed methods study
Published in:Social Science & Medicine
Publication date:2016-07-01
Assessing Latour
Published in:European Journal of Social Theory
Publication date:2018-02-21The case of the sickle cell body in history