neonatal intensive care

"In the late 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies-- until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter"--OCLC.

A biography of Doctor Martin Couney and how he revolutionized prenatal care over one hundred years ago and saved thousands of premature babies.

The authors detail the fight for their daughter, Juniper, who was born four months early, and weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces.

A prize-winning journalist examines the legal, social, moral, scientific, and economic implications of decisions to withhold treatment from severely handicapped newborns and surveys the attitudes of parents, doctors, nurses, bioethicists, as well as adults and children directly affected by the problem.

The author, an experienced neonatologist, details some of her experiences while caring for newborn babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, describing cases of premature births and the successes and failures of modern medicine.