Olivia Gordon
First Breath: How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Lives
First Breath: How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Lives
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The First Breath is a book about modern medicine that has saved a generation of babies. It explores the female experience of medicine and the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold life and death in their hands. It also tells of fear, bravery, and love.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
A BBC Radio 4 A Good Read choice, this is a story about cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies. It explores the love and fear a parent feels for a child they have not yet met, as well as the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold life and death in their hands. From the dawn of fetal medicine to neonatal surgery and the exploding field of perinatal genetics, The First Breath tells of fear, bravery, and love. Olivia Gordon takes the reader behind the closed doors of the fetal and neonatal intensive care units, resuscitation rooms, and operating theatres at some of the world's leading children's hospitals, unveiling the untold story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
A BBC Radio 4 A Good Read choice, this is a story about cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies. It explores the love and fear a parent feels for a child they have not yet met, as well as the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold life and death in their hands. From the dawn of fetal medicine to neonatal surgery and the exploding field of perinatal genetics, The First Breath tells of fear, bravery, and love. Olivia Gordon takes the reader behind the closed doors of the fetal and neonatal intensive care units, resuscitation rooms, and operating theatres at some of the world's leading children's hospitals, unveiling the untold story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
Weight: 502g
Dimension: 217 x 134 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509871179
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