The first breath : a memoir of motherhood and medicine
Gordon, Olivia2020
Books, Manuscripts
'The First Breath' is about the pioneering fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation into the world - a generation of babies without precedent, who would not have lived if they had been born only a few decades ago. Olivia Gordon explores the female experience of medicine through her own personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high-risk births. She details the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold not only life and death in their hands, but also the very possibility of birth.
Main title:
The first breath : a memoir of motherhood and medicine / Olivia Gordon.
Author:
Gordon, Olivia, author
Imprint:
London : Bluebird Books for Life, 2020.
Collation:
xiii, 353 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781509871209 (pbk)
Dewey class:
618.2
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2934464