High Risk - A Doctors Notes on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected

Karkowsky draws on her professional experiences to unpack the mystery and misinformation attached to childbirth, insisting on the value of listening to women's accounts of their own experiences.

About the author

Dr Chavi Eve Karkowsky is a maternal-foetal medicine specialist. She completed medical school in New York City at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and then completed her residency at Harvard. After two years as a generalist obstetrician-gynaecologist, she entered fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health. She is also the medical director of the largest teaching OBGYN clinic within their system. She is an active member of both the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as well as the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and is fully board-certified in both OBGYN as well as maternal-foetal medicine. In addition to her clinical practice, she has published essays and op-eds in The Daily Beast, the Atlantic, Health Magazine, Slate, and the Washington Post.

Summary

Infertility, pregnancy, miscarriages, difficult births. Obstetricians see it all. Not only are they treating the most private parts of the body — they’re dealing with the most intimate moments in our lives.

As a doctor specialising in high-risk pregnancy, Chavi Eve Karkowsky sees how women are failed by health services again and again. In this timely and unflinching book, she tells the stories of the families she has worked with — of miracles and joy, but also of challenge and loss — and explores what’s at risk when women’s bodies are clouded in mystery and misinformation.

Moving and compassionate, High Risk is a doctor’s testimonial to the strength and resilience of the women she treats, and — in an era when reproductive rights are under threat — a timely reminder that women’s health is of vital concern to us all.

Additional text

‘A solid primer on pregnancy risks as well as a cogent plea for progress to make childbirth even less perilous.’

Product details

• Authors: Chavi Eve Karkowsky, Chavi Karkowsky, Chavi Eve Karkowsky, Dr Chavi Eve Karkowsky
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2020
• EAN: 9781913348083
• ISBN: 978-1-913348-08-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Women's health, Women’s health, Reproductive Medicine, Pregnancy, birth & baby care, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Pregnancy, birth & baby care: advice & issues, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Human reproduction, growth & development, Human reproduction, growth and development