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

• 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

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,