“My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people’s lives, into the extremes of human experience,” writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine—that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies. Whether offering insight into the rise in home births, the alarming rise in America’s maternal mortality rate, or the history of involuntary sterilization, Karkowsky offers a window into all that pregnancy, labor, and birth can entail—birth and joy, but also challenge and loss—illustrating the complexity of reproductive life and the systems that surround it. With historical insight and journalistic verve, Karkowsky unpacks what is involved for women, for a family, and for us as a society; and explores what’s at risk when these aspects of medicine remain clouded in mystery and misinformation.
| ISBN: | 9781631495014 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2020 |
| Author: | Chavi Eve, MD Karkowsky |
| Publisher: | Liveright Publishing Corporation an imprint of WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Genres: |
Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues Women’s health Reproductive medicine Gynaecology and obstetrics |