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A doctor�s revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life�and everything we lose when we don�t speak honestly about women�s health. �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. (less)
A doctor�s revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life�and everything we lose when we don�t speak honestly about women�s health. �My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people�s (…more)
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High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected | 
