Pregnancy governed through risk
The tensions between guidance, uncertainty, and public responsibility during a health emergency.
The book
Care begins where certainty ends.
Moving between historical research, essay, poetry, and photography, the book asks how people and institutions learn to continue when protocols no longer contain the world they were designed to explain.
Protocols and disputed expertise
How clinical and institutional knowledge is reorganized under pressure and disagreement.
Frontline improvisation
The practical intelligence that sustains care when ready-made answers no longer suffice.
Editorial form
Three forms of attention
Research. Archives, oral history, and institutional life reveal how knowledge and care are reorganized under pressure.
Writing. Essays, poems, and fragments approach what evidence alone cannot contain.
Image. Photography observes landscape, structure, and the traces through which thought takes form.
“Crises do not only expose institutional limits. They also reveal the practical intelligence, remembered gestures, and fragile forms of care through which institutions continue to hold.”
About the author
Maria Carolina Fóscolo Gomes
A Brazilian historian and researcher whose work examines public health, institutional knowledge, memory, and care. She is the founder of Fóscolo & Company, an independent publishing project bringing intellectual rigor, visual form, and literary expression into sustained conversation.
- Language
- English
- Published
- July 2, 2026
- Publisher
- Fóscolo & Company
- Length
- 75 pages
- ISBN-10
- 6502203957
- ISBN-13
- 978-6502203958
- Formats
- Kindle, paperback, and hardcover
Begin with the reading
Encounter the book in its own form.
A curated sample brings together research, poetry, and photography.
Fóscolo & Company
Not every form of knowledge arrives as an answer.
Some begin by teaching us how to pay attention.