Download or read book My Cousin Has Sickle Cell Disease written by Caleb Byarugaba and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8-year-old Caleb shares what he has learnt about sickle cell disease because his baby cousin – one year old Willow has the disease. The love he has for Willow has also helped him learn how to babysit while always considering Willow’s sickle cell. Caleb wrote this book to share how much Willow has taught him about this rare disease. He believes that very few children know about this disease and might struggle to find child-friendly material to learn about it. Reading this book will not only introduce children to the basic facts about sickle cell disease but will also give them tips on how to care for babies responsibly.
Download or read book Cousin Marriages written by Alison Shaw and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It offers a cross-cultural exploration of practices of cousin marriage in the light of new genetic understanding of consanguineous marriage and its possible health risks. Overall, the volume presents a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy consanguinity” via new genetic technologies.
Download or read book The Fake Fianc e Proposition written by Vivian Wood and published by Vivian Wood. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet real estate CEO River, the most anti-marriage son of the Billion Dollar Bennett clan. And Pearl, the gorgeous diner waitress that he happens to have a thing for. Pearl is next in line to inherit a huge property... and the crushing debts tied to it. River wants to get close to Pearl’s heart before proposing that he should take her would-be-tax burden off her hands. When Pearl confesses that all she wants from life is to have a baby, River has a foolish idea. He offers to knock her up in exchange for Pearl pretending to be his new fiancée. Insane? Sure. But it just so happens that he desperately wants to sleep with her. Pearl is so baby-crazy that she’s willing to do almost anything to be pregnant. Even if it means deceiving everyone they love. They seal their pact with the steamiest, panty-melting, bang-on-the-kitchen-table kind of sex. River feels he has a surefire scheme. Everything will be fine as long as Pearl never finds out that River targeted her from the get go. Oh, and one more thing... neither of them can fall in love.
Download or read book Thoughts From Within and Other Poems written by Agnolia B. Gay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems honors the Everyday: a mother's birthday, a grandparent's passing, a broken heart, the students she advocates for and supports in their own artistic quests.
Download or read book Nursing Care in the Genomic Era written by Jean F. Jenkins and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, genomic-based approaches and resources are redefining our categorization of disease, leading to new approaches to prevention and therapy. As nurses traditionally practice patient-oriented care, they will undoubtedly play a key role in both developing and applying the aspects of genomic health care. Nursing Care in the Genomic Era: A Case Based Approach is designed to provide nurses with up-to-date and accessible information on this powerful new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating disease.
Download or read book A Sick Life written by Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid memoir of fame, strength, family, and friendship from the lead singer of TLC As the lead singer of Grammy-winning supergroup TLC, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins has seen phenomenal fame, success, and critical acclaim. But backstage, she has lived a dual life. In addition to the balancing act of juggling an all-consuming music career and her family, Tionne has struggled since she was a young girl with sickle-cell disease--a debilitating and incurable condition that can render her unable to perform, walk, or even breathe. A Sick Life chronicles Tionne's journey from a sickly young girl from Des Moines who was told she wouldn't live to see 30 through her teen years in Atlanta, how she broke into the music scene, and became the superstar musician and sickle-cell disease advocate she is today. Through Tionne's tough, funny, tell-it-like-it-is voice, she shares how she found the inner strength, grit, and determination to live her dream, despite her often unpredictable and debilitating health issues. She dives deep into never-before-told TLC stories, including accounts of her friendship with Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes and her tragic death. Tionne's unvarnished discussion of her remarkable life, disease, unending strength, and ability to power through the odds offers a story like no other.
Download or read book Two Patients written by John Bruchalski and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a terrible misjudgment in the delivery room, Dr. John Bruchalski realized that with every pregnant woman he attends, there are two patients—the mother and her unborn child. In addition to this discovery, two remarkable spiritual experiences deepened his understanding of the kind of man he had become and the one he was called to be. Two Patients is the story of how a physician who practiced abortion came to question the medical status quo and to pioneer an approach to reproductive medicine that respects female fertility, honors the dignity of unborn children, and o ers care to patients regardless of their financial situation. Such health care, writes Dr. John Bruchalski, is merciful medicine, and his memoir gives a glimpse of just how merciful the relationship between a doctor and his two patients—mother and child— can be.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Half Eye of the Gods written by ajige horeb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually, about 300,000 African babies are born with sickles cell disorders. A bold deception threatens to plunge the family of ex-miss Nigeria when her two sons are diagnosed with sickle cell Anaemia. Intrigue and family crisis mingle in one of the finest mysteries as Femi-her first son, is held hostage not by guns or bombs, but by a detect in the ß-globin chain of Haemoglobin as a result of sickle cell disease. Soon she is obsessed with consulting the African gods for solution to her problems. From this moment, Ibun and her family are caught up in a nightmare whirlwind of marital isolation, deception and serial death in her family. Her marriage was at a breaking point. Basically, traditional Africans consult the gods of good health for medical problems like infertility and mysterious illness. "Will the African gods come to the aid of former Miss Nigeria?" The truth that she will learn is the most shocking deception of all. It is a skillfully piece with a savage twist in the story.
Download or read book The Enculturated Gene written by Duana Fullwiley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell "mild" in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced people to improvise informal strategies of care. Duana Fullwiley shows how geneticists, who were fixated on population differences, never investigated the various modalities of self-care that people developed in this context of biomedical scarcity, and how local doctors, confronted with dire cuts in Senegal's health sector, wittingly accepted the genetic prognosis of better-than-expected health outcomes. Unlike most genetic determinisms that highlight the absoluteness of disease, DNA haplotypes for sickle cell in Senegal did the opposite. As Fullwiley demonstrates, they allowed the condition to remain officially invisible, never to materialize as a health priority. At the same time, scientists' attribution of a less severe form of Senegalese sickle cell to isolated DNA sequences closed off other explanations of this population's measured biological success. The Enculturated Gene reveals how the notion of an advantageous form of sickle cell in this part of West Africa has defined--and obscured--the nature of this illness in Senegal today.
Download or read book TEARS written by Lowell Q. Witten and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEARS is about children who attend our schools. The book identifies reasons for the failures or successes of our students. These reasons, for many students, have very little to do with academic skills, or the lack thereof. This book describes social and emotional dynamics that heavily contribute to the outcome of the school experiences of our children. TEARS identifies the lives of students who attend our schools under some very trying circumstances. The reader will learn about factors that contribute to their pain, anger, victimization and, sometimes, death. This book is about learning, parenting, teaching and surviving. TEARS tells stories of our student’s lives before, during and after school. It describes problems that are ongoing, yet unknown to many teachers, school administrators, media experts, politicians, academic pundits and preachers. This book gives a glimpse of why so many students eventually fail or drop out of school. TEARS tells stories from the school’s counselor, as told to him, by the students, teachers, or parents. On a daily basis, students search, desperately, for solutions to their problems. Some of them find temporary answers, while others find more questions. While these events occurred in California schools, it is safe to conclude that identical events are occurring in schools throughout the United States. This book is about some children who cry a lot, while attempting to survive in a society that provides very few dry handkerchiefs. T E A R S W i t t e n
Download or read book National Sickle Cell Anemia Prevention Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Sickle Cell Anemia Prevention Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Out Loud written by Ardis Dick Stenbakken and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen in as women from around the world shout Gods praise. Moments of joy and seasons of heartache are common to all of us, yet these women have learned to watch and listen for Gods love in actionHis love out loud. They have recognized His hands reaching out in welcome, His tears sliding down the face of a beloved friend, His voice whispering words of encouragement. And even when He was silent and the world seemed to be crashing down around them, they have felt His presence. You never know . . . you may have already heard His love out loud too.
Download or read book An Anatomy of Thought written by Ian Glynn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a dazzlingly wide array of disciplines--physiology, neurology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy--Ian Glynn explains virtually every aspect of the workings of the brain, unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Here are the mechanics of nerve messages; the functioning of sensory receptors; the processes by which the brain sees, tastes, and smells; the seats of language, memory, and emotions. Glynn writes with exceptional clarity and offers telling examples: to help explain vision, for instance, he discusses optical illusions as well as cases of patients who suffer disordered seeing through healthy eyes (such as the loss of the ability to recognize familiar faces). The breadth of Glynn's erudition is astonishing, as he ranges from parallel processing in computers to the specialization of different regions of the brain (illustrated with fascinating instances of the bizarre effects of localized brain damage). He explains the different types of memory (episodic and semantic, as well as short-term and implicit memory), traces the path through the brain of information leading to emotional responses, and engages in a discussion of language that takes in Noam Chomsky and Hawaiian pidgin. Moreover, for every subject Glynn addresses, he offers a thorough-going scientific history. For example, before discussing the evolution of the brain, he provides an account of the theory of evolution itself, from the writing and success of The Origin of Species to recent work on the fossil record, DNA, and RNA. No other single volume has captured the full expanse of our knowledge of consciousness and the brain. A work of unequaled authority and eloquence, An Anatomy of Thought promises to be a new landmark of scientific writing.
Download or read book Promoting Equality in Secondary Schools written by David Hill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at each national curriculum subject and analyzes it in terms of culture and ideology represented. It proceeds to give detailed advice and suggestions on how to promote equality and equal opportunities within each subject. Each chapter is wide-ranging and includes both theoretical and practical issues. The book also provides detailed lists of relevant curricular resources and their suppliers.
Download or read book The Black Utopians written by Aaron Robertson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post most anticipated fall book | One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia—and sought to transform their lives. How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in other words, does utopia look like in black? These questions animate Aaron Robertson’s exploration of Black Americans' efforts to remake the conditions of their lives. Writing in the tradition of Saidiya Hartman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robertson makes his way from his ancestral hometown of Promise Land, Tennessee, to Detroit—the city where he was born, and where one of the country’s most remarkable Black utopian experiments got its start. Founded by the brilliant preacher Albert Cleage Jr., the Shrine of the Black Madonna combined Afrocentric Christian practice with radical social projects to transform the self-conception of its members. Central to this endeavor was the Shrine’s chancel mural of a Black Virgin and child, the icon of a nationwide liberation movement that would come to be known as Black Christian Nationalism. The Shrine’s members opened bookstores and co-ops, created a self-defense force, and raised their children communally, eventually working to establish the country’s largest Black-owned farm, where attempts to create an earthly paradise for Black people continues today. Alongside the Shrine’s story, Robertson reflects on a diverse array of Black utopian visions, from the Reconstruction era through the countercultural fervor of the 1960s and 1970s and into the present day. By doing so, Robertson showcases the enduring quest of collectives and individuals for a world beyond the constraints of systemic racism. The Black Utopians offers a nuanced portrait of the struggle for spaces—both ideological and physical—where Black dignity, protection, and nourishment are paramount. This book is the story of a movement and of a world still in the making—one that points the way toward radical alternatives for the future.
