The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives
Gordon, Olivia2019
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Olivia Gordon explores the female experience of medicine through her own personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high-risk births. She details the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold not only life and death in their hands, but also the very possibility of birth. From the dawn of fetal medicine to neonatal surgery and the exploding field of perinatal genetics, The First Breath tells of fear, bravery and love. Olivia Gordon takes the reader behind the closed doors of the fetal and neonatal intensive care units, resuscitation rooms and operating theatres at some of the world's leading children's hospitals, unveiling the untold story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
Main title:
The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives / Olivia Gordon.
Author:
Gordon, Olivia, author
Imprint:
London : Bluebird, 2019.
Collation:
xi, 353 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781509871179 (hbk.)1509871179 (hbk.)
Dewey class:
618.2
Language:
English
BRN:
1211011