The Map of the child

Darshak Sangavi

ISBN 10: 0805075119 / ISBN 13: 9780805075113

Published by Holt, 2004

About this Item

A pediatric cardiologist who has studied throughout the world presents a dramatic tour of a child's vital organs, sharing anecdotes about children struggling with disease and other physical challenges as they progress from birth through adolescence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Seller Inventory # CIN0805075119G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Map of the child
• Publisher: Holt
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805075119
• ISBN 13: 9780805075113
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

"A delightful, quirky, awe-inspiring journey . . . Sanghavi is a vivid and effortless teller of human tales and quite evidently a special doctor, too."
―Atul Gawande, author of Complications

In this compelling book, Dr. Darshak Sanghavi takes 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―a premature baby named Adam Flax who was born with undeveloped lungs, a teenage boy with a positive pregnancy test, and a young girl who keeps losing weight despite her voracious appetite. In a deeply personal narrative, Sanghavi provides a richly detailed―and humanized―portrait of how the pediatric body functions in both sickness and health.

About the Author

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, during which time he lived on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. Sanghavi is currently practicing pediatric cardiology at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and lives in Boston with his wife and son. He writes regualary for The Boston Globe and is a frequent guest on NPR.