Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human

A journalist uses her own dramatic experience giving birth to explore the history of neonatology and the questions raised by premature birth.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a place made of stories—where humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways, as parents, physicians, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions raised by premature birth. When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human? For the ...