Additional reading
The following major texts deal with the whole field
of hematology, including the clinical, diagnostic, and
therapeutic aspects: Vernon B. Mountcastle (ed.), Medical
Physiology, 14th ed., 2vol. (1980); William J. Williams
et al. (eds.), Hematology, 3rd ed. (1983); Maxwell M.
Wintrobe et al., Clinical Hematology, 8th ed. (1981);
D.E. MacIntyre and J.L. Gordon (eds.), Platelets in
Biology andPathology III (1987); and James H. Jandl,
Blood: Textbook of Hematology (1987). See also George
Stamatoyannopoulos et al. (eds.), The Molecular Basis
of Blood Diseases (1987); Sir JohnDacie, Haemolytic
Anaemias, 3rd ed. (1985), a classic text with detailed
bibliography; I. Chanarin, The Megaloblastic Anaemias,
2nd ed. (1979), a comprehensive work with numerous references;
and D.J. Weatherall, The Thalassaemia Syndromes, 2nd
ed. (1972). For later research, see D.J. Weatherall
(ed.), The Thalassemias (1983); H. Lehmann and R.G.
Huntsman, Man'sHaemoglobins: Including the Haemoglobinopathies
and Their Investigation, rev. ed. (1975); William Dameshek
and Frederick Gunz's Leukemia, 4th ed., edited by Frederick
W. Gunz and Edward S. Henderson (1983); Oscar D. Ratnoff
and Charles D. Forbes (ed.), Disorders of Hemostasis
(1984); Rosemary Biggs and C.R. Rizza, Human Blood Coagulation,
Haemostasis, and Thrombosis, 3rd ed. (1984); and Sheila
T. Callender, Blood Disorders: The Facts (1985), a comprehensive
basic introduction.Maxwell M. Wintrobe
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