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
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