Understanding Sickle Cell Disease

by Miriam Bloom

Book Overview

Sickle Cell Disease and How It Is Inheritied * Who Has Sickle Cell Disease and Why * Inside the Red Blood Cell * Possible Effects of Sickle Cell Disease * How to Care for People with Sickle Cell Disease * Planning a Family * Searching for a Cure Although more is known about sickle cell disease than about any other inherited disease, no cure for it exists. It is of enormous biological, social, and historc importance. In America alone, about one in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878057455
• ISBN13: 9780878057450
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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