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

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 childs 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.