Oxford Textbook of the Newborn

• 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

This is a wonderful book that brings a whole new perspective to the present-day care of newborns by reviewing the history of that care. It will not teach readers how to care for a specific disease but may influence them by putting into context the historical, cultural, and ethical biases we bring to the bedside. I recommend it without reservation.