Download or read book The Journey of a Strong Black Woman Living with Sickle Cell Anemia written by Shaquita Norris and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS A NON-FICTION BOOK. IT SPEAK VOLUMES IN DIFFERENT STRENGTH. IT SHOWS PAIN AND ENCOURAGEMENT.- A gorgeous black, chocolate baby girl born into this life full of pain and sorrow lost her innocence at a young to a person she barely even know. Till she was saved by her grandparents who took her to raise as one of their own. She suffer from a hereditary blood disorder called SICKLE CELL ANEMIA!!!!!
Download or read book Sickle Cell Natural Healing written by Tamika Moseley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending every three months of her newborn's life in the hospital managing his sickle cell disease, Tamika Moseley knew she had to change what she was doing or the hospital would be her second home. In this deeply personal book, Tamika shares her story of the difficult journey she took to find natural ways to treat her son's debilitating disease. Three years since she started using herbs to minimize his sickle cell crises, her son is living a normal, healthy and pain-free life. Whether you have sickle cell disease or the trait, this book will show you what your body needs and how to treat your symptoms so that pain is no longer a part of your vocabulary. As Tamika likes to say, "Knowledge is power!" Sickle Cell Natural Healing: A Mother's Journey gives you the benefit of the wisdom one fearless and determined mother collected so that others suffering with this disease can thrive.
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 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
Download or read book Soar written by Gail Campbell Woolley and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book about life—about living it ravenously, fully, joyously, unendingly, even if you have a death sentence.” —Donna Brazile, former chair, Democratic National Committee When Gail Campbell Woolley was seven, a pediatrician told her mother that Gail suffered from sickle cell anemia, a rare blood disease, and that she would be dead by age thirty-five. While others may have responded to this horrifying news by descending into a fog of self-pity, Gail went in the opposite direction. She decided to live an eventful, exciting life that ultimately included—despite a troubled home life and the systemic racism and sexism of the late twentieth century—academic success, an impressive career, a long and loving marriage, and the ability to leave her unmistakable stamp on every person she met. By the time she finally succumbed to her disease at age fifty-eight in 2015, she had ground that doctor’s words into dust. Soar, written in the last two years of her life, is Woolley’s powerfully inspiring story, and its publication checks the last item off her extraordinary bucket list, which also included traveling to every continent except Antarctica. Written in an engaging, no-nonsense voice with a directness that reflects her many years in journalism, Woolley’s remarkable story not only will move readers to root for this irrepressible, quietly heroic woman but also will push readers to reassess their own approach to life. “An inspiration for anyone confronting life’s challenges. Gail has left a legacy of courage and compassion, and her memoir represents a voice that desperately needs to be heard in America right now.” —Marc Morial, president and CEO, National Urban League
Download or read book Breaking The Sickle written by Louie T. McClain II and published by Melanin Origins, LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's book snippet about the life of a pioneer African-American pediatrician who saved and prolonged the lives of people battling Sickle Cell Disease and who's life's work became U.S. medical policy.
Download or read book The Morpher written by Sydatu Holder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about one womans spiritual and emotional awakening while living to die with SCA, sickle cell anemia disease. How she came to call her beloved disease the Morpher or Morph for short was because it caused such a metamorphosis in her body, mind, and entire overall state. This is about her surrendering journey that forced her, as she stated, to be honest with myself about what was really going on with me, within me, and what my role had been, good or bad, telling the truth about living to die with sickle cell anemia disease my entire life, with no holds barred and no bull crap. A testament of my faith and trust in Jesus Christ, the main factor that grounded me and made me triumphant through this whole losing battle, and about my firm and tireless belief in Gods love that exchanges suffering (ashes) for beauty and Gods good plan and purpose for everyone that suffers. With God, nothing happens by chance or accident.
Download or read book A Parent s Guide to Managing Sickle Cell Disease written by Lola Oni and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remaking Black Power written by Ashley D. Farmer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.
Download or read book The Enculturated Gene written by Duana Fullwiley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 369 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. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Download or read book USBE HE Professional written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USBE/HE Professional Edition is a bi-annual publication devoted to engineering, science and technology and to promoting opportunities in those fields for Black and Hispanic Americans.
Download or read book How to Live with Sickle Cell written by Tola Dehinde and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'HOW TO LIVE WITH SICKLE CELL: Sickle Cell and I' is about my personal journey with Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD). Sickle Cell Disorder is a blood disorder that people still misunderstand. I have written this book to help people with SCD, and those who know someone with Sickle Cell. This book will give you a better insight into the lives of those with SCD and it will help clarify what it is. As you read this book, you will find out about the following: My personal experiences with this disorder, Vitamins, minerals and supplements for people with SCD, Food nutritional guide for people with SCD, Complications involving Sickle Cell, Dealing with non-pain issues for people living with Sickle Cell, and more. I can assure you that after you have read my book on Sickle Cell, you will have a better understanding of what SCD is and what it is not. If you have SCD or you are a carer, you will have a more informed choice on how to live your life or help your loved ones. By the end of 'HOW TO LIVE WITH SICKLE CELL: Sickle Cell and I', you will understand why people have crises, how to look after someone with Sickle Cell, how to achieve your purpose if you have SCD, and how to learn about breakthroughs in the area of science. Visit my blog at http: //www.howtolivewithsicklecell.co.u
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Download or read book A Sickle Cell Coloring Book For Kids A Creative A to Z Guide on Growing Up with Sickle Cell Disease for Children Ages 6 8 With Over 26 Coloring Pages written by Kate Hamernik and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sickle Cell Coloring book for Kids was written for children ages 4-8. Itis an educational resource for parents, caregivers, and children. The book breaksdown terms and concepts for children who were diagnosed with sickle celldisease (SCD). When raising achild with a genetic disorder such as SCD there is so much to learn, so theauthor simplified the information so even a child could understand how thisgenetic blood disorder affects the body. The coloring book is great tool forparents or caregivers to color along with the child. ASickle Cell Coloring Book for Kids Features Beautifuloriginal illustrations―Over 26 coloring pages from the letter A to Z all related to caringfor a child with blood disorders. Large 8.5 x 11 inch pages, easy to color forkids Educationaland fun―Each pageis an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress while coloring. Suitable for coloring with pencils, crayons, and gel pens Madefor diverse families―The coloring pagesfeature children, adults, and medical professionals from different ethnicgroups because sickle cell disease affects families from multicultural backgroundsall over the world. Positiveand inspiring―The book is a positivekeepsake that gives young sickle cell warriors a chance to boost theirconfidence and creativity.
Download or read book Health Equity in Brazil written by Kia Lilly Caldwell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise. But the nation still faces serious health challenges and inequities. Though home to the world's second largest African-descendant population, Brazil failed to address many of its public health issues that disproportionately impact Afro-Brazilian women and men. Kia Lilly Caldwell draws on twenty years of engagement with activists, issues, and policy initiatives to document how the country's feminist health movement and black women's movement have fought for much-needed changes in women's health. Merging ethnography with a historical analysis of policies and programs, Caldwell offers a close examination of institutional and structural factors that have impacted the quest for gender and racial health equity in Brazil. As she shows, activists have played an essential role in policy development in areas ranging from maternal mortality to female sterilization. Caldwell's insightful portrait of the public health system also details how its weaknesses contribute to ongoing failures and challenges while also imperiling the advances that have been made.
Download or read book Living and Dying in Brick City written by Sampson Davis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent picture of medical care in our cities, written by an emergency room physician (and co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Pact) who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving “A pull-no-punches look at health care from a seldom-heard sector . . . Living and Dying isn’t a sky-is-falling chronicle. It’s a real, gutsy view of a city hospital.”—Essence In this book, Dr. Sampson Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day. He also offers invaluable practical advice for those living in such communities, where conditions like asthma, heart disease, stroke, obesity, and AIDS are disproportionately endemic. Dr. Davis’s sister, a drug addict, died of AIDS; his brother is now paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair as a result of a bar fight; and he himself did time in juvenile detention—a wake-up call that changed his life. He recounts recognizing a young man who is brought to the E.R. with critical gunshot wounds as someone who was arrested with him when he was a teenager during a robbery gone bad; describes a patient whose case of sickle-cell anemia rouses an ethical dilemma; and explains the difficulty he has convincing his landlord and friend, an older woman, to go to the hospital for much-needed treatment. With empathy and hard-earned wisdom, Living and Dying in Brick City is an important resource guide for anyone at risk, anyone close to those at risk, and anyone who cares about the fate of our cities.
Download or read book Survival of the Sickest LP written by Dr. Sharon Moalem and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on—or off? Survival of the Sickest is fi lled with fascinating insights and cutting-edge research, presented in a way that is both accessible and utterly absorbing. This is a book about the interconnectedness of all life on earth—and especially what that means for us. Read it. You're already living it.
