Product Description Provides unparalleled coverage of both the basic science issues related to sickle cell disease, its pathophysiology and organ-specific complications, and current and future approaches to treatment. Book Info University of California, San Francisco. Reference for clinicians on the basic science and clinical aspects of sickle cell disease. Forward by Linus Pauling, sickle cell pioneer. 81 contributors, 80 U.S. Color plates and halftone illustrations. DNLM: Anemia, Sickle Cell.