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Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body - Hardcover

Sanghavi, Darshak

 
9780805067248: Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805067248 ISBN 13: 9780805067248
Verlag: Henry Holt and Co., 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Dr. Darshak Sanghavi has learned to read the body-to recognize patterns of sickness, apply modern medical technology when warranted, and to offer comfort through human contact, all vital skills when working with patients who are often too young or too ill to speak. In this compelling book, he shares his experiences by taking the reader on a dramatic tour of a child's eight vital organs, beginning with the lungs and proceeding through the heart, blood, bones, brain, skin, gonads, and gut. Along the way, we meet children and families in extraordinary circumstances, such as a premature baby named Adam Flax who was born with undeveloped lungs, a Japanese infant with a blockage in his heart, a young girl who sees ghosts and grows too fast, a teenage boy with a positive pregnancy test, and a young girl who keeps losing weight despite her voracious appetite. Using such stories as windows on the wonders and tragedies of human biology, the author examines the development and inner workings of children's bodies from birth through adolescence. In a deeply personal narrative, Sanghavi comes to terms with the great advances and continued limitations of modern medicine, even as he provides a richly detailed-and humanized-portrait of how the pediatric body functions in sickness and health.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Darshak Sanghavi graduated from Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. He has done medical research in Japan, India, Kenya, and Peru, and until recently was a pediatrician for the U.S. Indian Health Service, where he lived on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. He is currently practicing pediatric cardiology at Boston's Children's Hospital and lives in Boston with his wife and son.

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Structuring his book to follow patient rounds at the Children's Hospital in Boston, where he did his training in pediatrics, Sanghavi takes the reader on a tour of discovery through eight organ systems of a child's body, beginning with the lungs and ending with the gut. He describes how these systems work and what happens when something goes wrong, recounting true case studies that range from the commonplace (broken bones) to the peculiar (a teenage boy with a positive pregnancy test). Sanghavi also shares his personal insights into the ideology of being a compassionate physician. An outstanding quality of this work is that it shows how the author handles controversial issues, such as abortion and child abuse, in an objective and level-headed manner. Sanghavi's humanism is encouraging in today's world of high-tech, bottom-line medical care. His very readable book is a good resource for parents, as well as educators, social workers, and healthcare personnel who interact with children. Recommended for wellness collections and high school, public, and medical libraries seeking authoritative personal narratives about medicine.
Deborah Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody, GA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The author, a pediatrician and father, presents the complexities of his specialty in this engaging and informative medical narrative. Drawing on case studies, Sanghavi details what can go wrong in each part of a child's body and what medical science can or can't do about it. Sanghavi guides readers through his medical routine: in Japan, working with a team of pediatric cardiologists, he assists in the successful operation on a three-month-old infant with a blockage on the right side of his heart. However, despite the advances of medical technology, some children cannot be saved. Bobby, a five-year-old with cystic fibrosis, undergoes treatment every few months for his damaged lungs, but despite the best efforts of physicians his condition will continue to deteriorate. Throughout these accounts of seriously ill children, the author's strong commitment to his patients and his profession shines through. Although Sanghavi's initial motivation was to increase the reader's awareness of pediatric medicine, he comes to a personal realization that he has to make a leap from seeing "lungs and hearts" to "seeing whole people." Especially moving is a description of the author's feelings of medical helplessness when his father was dying and there were no more treatment options.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Sanghavi seems to be the pediatrician all parents wish they had. He doesn't consider himself merely a health-care provider, nor does he view his patients merely as clients. Each patient has a name, a personal history, and a family. Even though he calls this book a map of the child's body, it is in no way a dry-as-dust word-map of lungs, heart, blood, bones, brain, skin, gonads, and guts. Yes, Sanghavi carefully explains each organ's function and design, but interspersed with clinical information about the organ's major and minor diseases and disorders are explicatory anecdotes about patients, colleagues, friends, and family. Those stories, coupled with Sanghavi's reflections on such issues as alternative medicine and child abuse, reveal his humanity. Where it is pertinent, he adds a brief history of medical knowledge about each organ. In illustrating how and why organs work the way they do, he dispels fears about many childhood ailments. Minimal medical jargon and straightforward language make this a handy reference for parents. Donna Chavez
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Verlag
Henry Holt and Co.
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805067248
ISBN 13 
9780805067248
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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