Extreme Prematurity: Creating “Iatrogenic Lives”

"Extreme Prematurity: Creating “Iatrogenic Lives”." The American Journal of Bioethics, 17(8), pp. 34–35

Notes

1. As a field neonatology has its roots in the late 19th century to the early 20th, in the perinatal practice of Pierre Budin and E. S. Tarnier, French obstetricians who devoted their life to increasing the survival rate of postpartum infants in a country with declining birth rates. The first incubator was described in 1857 in France. French neonatologists from the beginning were concerned about treating populations and being mandated by the state for such a social mission. All quotes from French neonatologists are from Orfali 's (2004) study and fieldwork (Orfali and Gordon 2004).