Understanding Sickle Cell Disease (Understanding Health & Sickness) by Miriam Bloom

"Over 50,000 black Americans suffer from sickle cell disease, which makes it a major public health concern in the United States," writes Bloom, a geneticist and former senior editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This first volume in the publisher's new "Understanding Health and Sickness" series offers readers Insight into this as yet incurable, inherited disease. Bloom starts with an overview of the disease; other topics include a discussion of who gets the disease (which includes not only people of African descent but of Mediterranean ancestry as well), the red blood cell, effects of the disease, care of sickle cell patients, family planning, and the search for a cure. An extensive list of organizations and support groups is included. Though dry and technical, Bloom's book gives informed general readers a look into this genetically transmitted disease. For medical collections. [See also "A Critical Care Collection for African Americans," LJ 1/95, p. 53-56.?Ed.]?Angela Washington-Blair, Lakemont Acad., Dalla.
-?Angela Washington-Blair, Lakemont Acad., Dallas
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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I did not understand much about the disease until I read this book. This was an excellent source.