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Curved Air : A Biography of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Quest to Cure the First Molecular Disease / Kevin Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Kevin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gray, Victoria.
- Hightower, Brittany.
- Sickle cell anemia.
- CRISPR (Genetics).
- Local Subjects:
- Gray, Victoria.
- Hightower, Brittany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- How sickle cell anemia led the quest to edit the human genome while patients endured decades of racial discrimination and medical neglect.In December 1904, Walter Clement Noel, a dental student from Grenada, was admitted to a Chicago hospital with fever, jaundiced eyes, and ulcers covering his legs.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. The World's Most Famous Mutation
- 2. Ain't that Peculiar?
- 3. The First Molecular Disease
- 4. Out of Africa
- 5. Celebrity Status
- 6. The Invisible Malady
- 7. Bad Blood
- 8. The Gold Standard
- 9. The Economic Valley of Death
- 10. Close, But No Cigar
- 11. Sacré Bleu
- 12. Flipping the Switch
- 13. Reaching the Summit
- 14. Queen Victoria
- 15. Warrior Spirit
- 16. Stamp of Approval
- 17. Moving the Needle
- 18. Blood Sisters
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Davies, Kevin Curved Air
- ISBN:
- 9780674307070
- 9780674307063
- OCLC:
- 1605655970
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