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High risk : stories of pregnancy, birth, and the unexpected / Chavi Eve Karkowsky.

by Karkowsky, Chavi Eve.

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Pregnancy -- Complications -- United States.

Prenatal care -- United States.

Maternal health services -- United States.

Alternate title:

Stories of pregnancy, birth, and the unexpected

xxi, 287 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: No little thing -- Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy : did we save enough of your life? -- Choosing a provider : scut is love -- Genetic testing : everything is probably okay -- Anatomy ultrasound : incidentalomas -- Periviable birth : a necessary story -- Trial of labor after cesarean : accept and reject intervention -- Stillbirth : when we talk about birth, we need to talk about death -- Informed consent : sign here and don't ask too many questions -- Medical systems and home birth : how institutions save you or fail you or both -- Maternal mortality and racial disparities in health care : implicit, complicit -- Conclusion: Let's go home.

"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"--From publisher.

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