The first breath : how modern science saves the most fragile lives (Record no. 48708)
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| fixed length control field | 01836cam a2200169 4500 |
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| control field | 9781509871179 |
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| fixed length control field | 190911t2019 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781509871179 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gordon, O |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The first breath : how modern science saves the most fragile lives |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Bluebird, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | xi, 353p; 23cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 fetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveiling 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Neonatology |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Obstetrics |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Newham collection at Whipps Cross | Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) | Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) | Shelves | 20/04/2022 | WS 804 GOR | N05587 | 20/04/2022 | 20/04/2022 | Book |