Recommended Books on Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle Cell Anemia - A Bibliography and Dictionary for Physicians, Patients, and Genome Researchers In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing. Since only the smallest fraction of information dealing with sickle cell anemia is indexed in search engines, such as www.google.com or others, a non-systematic approach to Internet research can be not only time consuming, but also incomplete. This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.
Sickle Cell Anemia - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.
Crystals in My Bones: One Sickle Cell Anemia Journey Bern makes "Crystals in My Bones" a biographical scrapbook most compelling by putting you in his family and relationships from the start. Informing you along the way the cause and effect of his health and fitness and throwing in a little social science. In other words, she puts you there. You see a human being like yourself who wants to be treated as you treat yourself and friends. Bern has had lots of interesting experiences starting with her thesis for Early Childhood education. An interview published in the California Advocate, a personal, "A Toe Needs its Space" Fresno Bee, and two other articles published and a short story. Some of the anecdotes are simply hilarious.
In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race (Critical Histories)
Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. In the Blood argues that ever since the discovery in 1910 and subsequent scientific analysis of the disease, sickle cell anemia has been manipulated to serve social ends-as a tool for securing white identity and a way to establish a hierarchy based on European heritage. Tapper shows how sickle cell anemia was used to promote the superiority of racial purity, to characterize the black body as contaminated, and even to support the notion that modern humans evolved from multiple origins.
Sickle-Cell Anemia Disease Medical Guide The Sickle-Cell Anemia Disease Medical Guide is a publication which has been designed to better help readers understand Sickle-Cell Anemia Disease. This Qontro Medical Guide has been designed with the reader in mind, and is a useful information source for readers at all levels looking to learn more about Sickle-Cell Anemia Disease. The Sickle-Cell Anemia Disease Medical Guide is highly recommended for those interested in understanding and learning more about Sickle-Cell Anemia Disease.
Hope and Destiny: A Patient's and Parent's Guide to Sickle Cell Anemia
For anyone who has or is predisposed to sickle cell disease, this informative and compassionate guide provides all the facts patients, loved ones, and caregivers need to know in order to reduce symptoms, relieve pain, and help patients and their support circle better understand the cause and growth of the disease. Divided into different sections to address the changing complications posed by the disease at each stage of life, this book emphasizes the need for offering emotional and spiritual consolation to those who suffer from sickle cell disease or witness the suffering of a love one. Topics include the complex causes of sickle cell disease, the most current treatment options, facts on genetic counseling, pain assessment and management resources, and strategies to lower the likelihood of pain crises.
Sickle Cell Anemia (Diseases and People) Explores the history of sickle cell anemia, discussing its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Sickle Cell Anemia (What Does It Mean to Have?) This superb new series is designed to present the facts and promote awareness and understanding of conditions that many children learn to live with. Each book: - introduces a condition, examining its causes and effects - looks at control, medication and treatment - covers the help and support available - includes numerous real-life case studies - is written with the help and advice of key experts
Menace In My Blood: My Affliction With Sickle-Cell Anemia
Sickle-cell disease is a unique inherited and incurable condition of the blood cells which, according to doctors, has similarities with virtually all disease conditions known to mankind, including AIDS and cancer. Commonly affecting Africans and those with an African ancestry, the disease is also prevalent among Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Italians (chiefly Sicilians), Iranians and Indians. As a result of migration and other factors, the disease is rampant the world over. From England to the United States and Canada, from Brazil to the Caribbean, children are still being born with the disease and its trait. Medical science is able to offer little more than palliation, and even in countries with the most advanced medicare, the average life expectancy for sicklers is low-42 years for males and 48 for females. With a population in excess of 150 million, of which one in four are carriers of the sickle cell trait, Nigeria hosts the largest population of sicklers in the world - over 6 million at the last estimate.
Suffering from a severe form of the disease, the type which, especially in sub-Saharan Africa makes survival to adulthood a rarity, the author writes about his childhood, the pains of growing up with a major health impairment. He also talks about his early cigarette and alcohol abuse and of being sexually molested at the age of 7.
In this first of a series, the author touches on the social and political milieu into which he was born and weaves into his story the life experiences of significant others in his web of relationship.
This book will be a source of encouragement to all whom the medical profession gives little prospects, whether of healing or survival
REVIEWER'S COMMENT:
"This is a personal account of a man's struggle through the threatening spasms of life. The novel offers a great deal of information about the sickle-cell disease, the Yoruba, their anthropology, religion, and family systems. It is a definite statement about African culture and belief patterns. The crafting of the story is rich and captivating."
Professor Charles Ogbulogo Former HOD
Department of African & Asian Studies
University of Lagos
Nigeria
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