The Resource The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives, Olivia Gordon
The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives, Olivia Gordon
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- Summary
- What happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby's life don't go as planned? How have advances in modern medicine and perinatal genetics redefined our perceptions of what is possible?The First Breath by Olivia Gordon is a powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary foetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveilling the intense patient-doctor relationship at work with every birth, this book reflects on the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies, the combination of love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven't yet met and what can happen before a baby's first breath. Olivia Gordon was twenty-nine weeks pregnant when a scan found that her baby was critically ill. Thanks to a risky operation in utero and five months in neonatal care, her son survived. The First Breath is the first popular science book to tell the story of the fast developing fields of fetal and neonatal medicine. It explores motherhood and the female experience of medicine through Olivia's personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high risk births.The First Breath asks what it means to become the mother of a child who would not have survived birth only a generation ago, showing how doctors and nurses save the most vulnerable lives and how medicine has developed to make it possible for these lives to even begin
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 353 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509871186
- Label
- The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives
- Title
- The first breath
- Title remainder
- how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives
- Statement of responsibility
- Olivia Gordon
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby's life don't go as planned? How have advances in modern medicine and perinatal genetics redefined our perceptions of what is possible?The First Breath by Olivia Gordon is a powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary foetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveilling the intense patient-doctor relationship at work with every birth, this book reflects on the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies, the combination of love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven't yet met and what can happen before a baby's first breath. Olivia Gordon was twenty-nine weeks pregnant when a scan found that her baby was critically ill. Thanks to a risky operation in utero and five months in neonatal care, her son survived. The First Breath is the first popular science book to tell the story of the fast developing fields of fetal and neonatal medicine. It explores motherhood and the female experience of medicine through Olivia's personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high risk births.The First Breath asks what it means to become the mother of a child who would not have survived birth only a generation ago, showing how doctors and nurses save the most vulnerable lives and how medicine has developed to make it possible for these lives to even begin
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gordon, Olivia
- Dewey number
- 618.3
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gordon, Olivia
- Pregnancy
- Foetus
- Neonatal intensive care
- Newborn infants
- Newborn infants
- Foetus
- Perinatology
- Pregnant women
- Obstetrics
- Neonatology
- Label
- The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives, Olivia Gordon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065280659
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 353 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509871186
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079413511
- Label
- The first breath : how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives, Olivia Gordon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065280659
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 353 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509871186
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079413511
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