02735cam a2200313 i 4500 422239601 TxAuBib 20200403120000.0 200128s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019044377 9781631495014 HRD 26.95 1631495011 HRD 26.95 TxAuBib rda Karkowsky, Chavi Eve. High risk [BOOK] : a doctor's notes on pregnancy, birth, and the unexpected / Chavi Eve Karkowsky. First edition. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. xxi, 287 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 : just sign here and don't ask too many questions -- Medical systems and home birth : how institutions can 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. Provided by publisher. 20200403. Pregnancy Complications United States. Prenatal care United States. Maternal health services United States.