num_pages: 320
description: "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 ComplicationsIn 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.
language: English
title: A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body
titlecomplete: A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body
genres: Medicine, Science, Health, Nonfiction, Medical
ratings_count: 149
publisher: Holt Paperbacks