Oxford textbook of the newborn : a cultural and medical history / Michael Obladen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obladen, M. (Michael), 1944- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Oxford textbooks in paediatrics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neonatology--History.

Neonatology.

Newborn infants--Health and hygiene--History.

Newborn infants.

Newborn infants--Health and hygiene.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Neonatology.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Newborn

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Early life

1.1. Animatio: ideas about the beginning of personhood

1.2. Hepar uterinum: ideas about fetal nutrition

1.3. Pulmo uterinus: ideas about fetal respiration

pt. 2 Birth

2.1. From apparent death to birth asphyxia

2.2. Resuscitation 1: artificial ventilation

2.3. Resuscitation 2: oxygen and other drugs

2.4. Resuscitation 3: endotracheal intubation

2.5. Umbilical cord and umbilical care

2.6. Postverta, Agrippa, Caesarea: born feet-first

2.7. Social birth: rites of passage for the newborn

pt. 3 Prematurity

3.1. Measures of viability

3.2. Surviving against the odds

3.3. Respiratory distress: understanding surfactant deficiency

3.4. Holding breath: the development of surfactant substitution

3.5. Anatomy and spontaneous closure of the ductus arteriosus

3.6. Persisting patency of the ductus arteriosus in the preterm infant

3.7. Intraventricular haemorrhage

pt. 4 Multiple birth

4.1. Unwelcome: the abominable twins

4.2. Fertility and fatality: higher-order multiples

4.3. Unequal but monozygotic: twin-twin transfusion syndrome

4.4. From monster to reversed perfusion: acardiac twins

pt. 5 Odd shape

5.1. Cats, frogs, and snakes: concepts of neural tube defects

5.2. In God's image? The tradition of infant head shaping

5.3. Lame from birth: concepts of cerebral palsy

5.4. Possessed by evil spirits: seizures in infancy

5.5. Birthmark and blemish: the doctrine of maternal imagination

5.6. Cast aside: infants with Down's syndrome

5.7. Crooked limbs: the thalidomide catastrophe

5.8. A wretched condition: cleft urinary bladder

pt. 6 Breast is best

6.1. Bad milk: medical doctrines that impeded breastfeeding

6.2. Regulated wet nursing: managed care or organized crime?

6.3. Guttus, tiralatte, and teterelle: breast pumps

6.4. Pap, gruel, and panada: early approaches to artificial feeding

6.5. Milk demystified by chemistry

6.6. From swill milk to certified milk: progress in cow's milk quality

6.7. Technical inventions that enabled artificial infant feeding

6.8. Selling safety: commercial production of infant formula

6.9. Feeding the feeble: steps towards nourishing preterm infants

6.10. Much ado about nothing: controversies on tongue-tie

6.11. Lethal lullabies: opium use in infants

pt. 7 Disease

7.1. Innocent blood: haemorrhagic disease of the newborn

7.2. Yellow brains and blue light: neonatal jaundice

7.3. Weak giants: infants of diabetic mothers

7.4. Filth, impurity, and threat: meconium

7.5. Necrotizing enterocolitis: 150 years of fruitless search for the cause

7.6. Better baby bones: attacking rickets and scurvy

7.7. Curse on two generations: congenital syphilis

7.8. Thrush: nightmare of the foundling hospitals

7.9. Systemic infection: sepsis

pt. 8 Early death

8.1. From right to sin: laws on infanticide in antiquity

8.2. From sin to crime: laws on infanticide in the Middle Ages

8.3. From crime to disease: laws on infanticide in the modern era

8.4. Despising the weak: long shadows of infant murder in Nazi Germany

8.5. Cot death: history of an iatrogenic disaster

8.6. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven: infant mortality statistics

8.7. For whom no bell tolled: infant burials

8.8. Revived for paradise: respite sanctuaries

APPENDICES

1. Methodical limitations

2. Early special care baby units and their scientific achievements

3. Synchronoptic timetable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0198854803

9780198854807

OCLC:

1231548602

Publisher Number:

99989028952