Sickle Cell Books

Collaboratively written by Allan F. Platt, Jr. (Program Coordinator and Physican Assistant at the George Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Grady Health System, Atlanta, Georgia) and Alan Sacerdote (Chief of Adult Endocrinoloty, Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center and Clinical Profesor of Medicine at SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn, New York), Hope And Destiny: A Patient's And Parent's Guide To Sickle Cell Disease And Sickle Cell Trait is a guide written especially for non-specialist general readers of all ages who must cope with sickle cell anemia, either in themselves or in their family and offspring. Individual chapters cover the causes of sickle cell disease; current tretment options; genetic counseling; age-based developmental issues; pain assessment and management; as well as new treatments and research. Hope And Destiny is confidently recommended as a solid and informational primer.

The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease provides a history of diseases which have been connected with racial makeup, sparking ethnic controversies in their discussion and analysis. The authors draw links between biology and social issues, examining underlying influences on research and perspective of modern medicine and how Americans ultimately come to embrace or reject projected breakthroughs. From therapy as social justice to media headlines and changing social perspectives, THE TROUBLED DREAM OF GENETIC MEDICINE is a powerful testimony to the power of prejudice even in the field of medical research.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

The Early Life Of Jeomie East is a wonderful book. This book is touching, loving, and enlightening. It helps you realize that there is an illness out there that can take hold of your life and completely change your view of it. Jeomie wrote a touching autobiography of her experiences. The photo album portion of this book helps you put faces with names. And the poems and the tributes were touching. I enjoyed it, and I learned so much. Thank you for sharing.

The Early Life Of Jeomie East is a wonderful book. This book is touching, loving, and enlightening. It helps you realize that there is an illness out there that can take hold of your life and completely change your view of it. Jeomie wrote a touching autobiography of her experiences. The photo album portion of this book helps you put faces with names. And the poems and the tributes were touching. I enjoyed it, and I learned so much. Thank you for sharing.

This book is good for guiding patients suffering from the disease, but as far as carers psychological status is concerned it did not give much details. It is a good book, but was a bit dissapointed because it did not fulfill the requirement of what I have been looking for

AN ACCURATE AND INFORMATIVE DEPICTION OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE AND ITS EFFECTS. MILLIONS OF FAMILIES DEAL WITH THIS HORRIBLE AFFLICTION DAILY. IT IS MY HOPE THAT THIS BOOK WILL COMFORT THOSE FAMILIES AND PERHAPS BE THE CATALYST NEEDED TO GENERATE MORE RESEARCH. MAY GOD BLESS THE AUTHOR AND HER STORY.

I thought this book was quite interesting. It explained Sickle Cell Anemia in an easy to understand manner. Some parts of the book were boring and seemed a little long, but I liked it when the book used stories of real people who live with the disease. All in all, I thought this book was very helpful and informative and I would recomend it to middleschool or highschool students who are doing a report on the topic.

So That His Death Will Not Have Been In Vain is a serious book about a mother (the author) and her son who had serious hopes of becoming a naval officer, but he callasped while in basic training, and died several days later. What is most interesting about this book is that he was a carrier of the sickle cell trait, but was not aware of its impact. And what made it most interesting was that the navy wasn't aware of the effect being a carrier could have on one's physical body. Being aware could have saved the life of this promising young man. Many African Americans and decendants from the Mediterranian or apt to have the sickle cell disease or be carriers. This book is a lesson for parents and a lesson for the military. Why? because it serves as an awareness tool for those who are not familiar. For example, even being a carrier has its consequencies,i.e., heat factors as it relates to over heating in the sun while doing strenuous exercise, etc. If you have the trait in your family or know of family members who are carriers--this is an important book to read. It provides you with the basis of the Sickle Cell trait and what you should be aware that could mean the difference in life or death. The book is serious and provides you with serious information. The author has indeed done some serious research in helping us to understand the carrier of the sickle cell trait, and learning more about the death of her son.

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

This is a great book, but it can be better. It is very descriptive and tells what it believed and what is not. If you are looking for a book that gives you alot of information on sickle cell disease this is the book for you. If you are looking for an easy exciting book, you are better off looking for another book.

The product has 17 lab manual versions of independant experiments, a CD program that runs model symulations, and costs $20 at my local book store for 4 experiments and the CD. This product cost $26 did not come with a CD nor did it list the 3 labs it contained. I could not even use the product for class. I would have had to pay $5 to ship it back only to get back $20. So I would have paid $11 so I could get $20, which might not have come back.