Oxford Textbook of the Newborn, a Cultural and Medical History

Abstract

First edition The Oxford Textbook of the Newborn: A Cultural and Medical History provides readers with an accessible exploration of the natural lifecycle of a neonate throughout history, Cover -- Oxford Textbook of The Newborn -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 Part 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 téterelle: 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 8 Early death