Michael Obladen (Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics,

Oxford Textbook of the Newborn

A Cultural and Medical History

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Produktbeschreibung

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,

Produktdetails

• Oxford Textbooks in Paediatrics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 229mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1384g
• ISBN-13: 9780198854807
• ISBN-10: 0198854803
• Artikelnr.: 61582397

Autorenporträt

Michael Obladen, Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Neonatology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

* Part One: 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 Two: 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 and Cesarea: Born Feet-First
* 2.7: Social Birth: Rites of Passage for the Newborn
* Part Three: 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 Hemorrhage
* Part Four: 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 Five: Odd Shape
* 5.1: Cats, Frogs and Snakes: Concepts of Neural Tube Defects
* 5.2: In God's Image ? 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 Six: 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 Innovations 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 Seven: Disease
* 7.1: Innocent Blood: Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn
* 7.2: Yellow Brains and Blue lights: 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 Eight: 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: An Iatrogenic Disaster
* 8.6: Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven: Infant Mortality Statistics
* 8.7: For Whom no Bell Tolled: History of Infant Burials
* 8.8: Revived for Paradise: Respite Sanctuaries
* Appendix