As a Townsend Fellow in 2001-2002, Duana Fullwiley, a student in the UCSFUC Berkeley joint program in medical anthropology, plans to complete her study of the ways in which ethical dilemmas arising from genetic testing, prenatal diagnosis, and the prospect of therapeutic abortion are posed for patients and families affected by sickle cell anemia. Based on research carried out in hospitals, neighborhoods, and individual homes in Oakland, California, Paris, France, and Dakar, Senegal, Fullwiley’s dissertation, Cultural Ethics and Sickle Cell Anemia: A Single Gene Disorder in a Global Context, will provide new insights on how culturally specific notions of producing healthy progeny are inflected by social, political, historical, and religious understandings of what it means to be human in today’s world. Fullwiley will hold a Ford Foundation fellowship during her tenure as a Townsend Fellow.