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Karkowsky, Chavi Eve.
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Pregnancy -- Complications -- United States.
Prenatal care -- United States.
Maternal health services -- United States.
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Karkowsky, Chavi Eve.
Pregnancy -- Complications -- United States.
Prenatal care -- United States.
Maternal health services -- United States.
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High risk :
stories
of
pregnancy
,
birth
, and the
unexpected
/ Chavi Eve Karkowsky.
by
Karkowsky, Chavi Eve.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Call #:
618.2 K184h
Subjects
Pregnancy
-- Complications -- United States.
Prenatal care -- United States.
Maternal health services -- United States.
ISBN:
9781631495014
Alternate title:
Stories
of
pregnancy
,
birth
, and the
unexpected
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxi, 287 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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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