Overview
- First book dealing with fetal pain and its consequences, and with pain in "premature babies"
- International renowned authors contribute to the evaluation of fetal and neonatal pain from different points of view
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction: Pain and Suffering from the Womb Onwards?
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Delivery and Pain
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Fetal Pain
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Pain: a Risk Factor for Brain Damage
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book, authored mostly by Italian physicians and scientists, describes pain in the fetus and neonate and its consequences in later life. … This is a good resource for neonatologists, obstetricians, pediatric surgeons, and other medical and nursing professionals in the field of perinatal care. … This is a good book on many aspects of fetal and neonatal pain that provides a fairly extensive review of the world literature on this controversial subject." (Jay P. Goldsmith, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2008)
“Neonatal Pain … presents nineteen contributions by an international group of physicians and scientists which describe and review recent medical studies indicating that fetuses and newborns do suffer pain and stress and that these stresses may have adverse effects on the children’s mental, physical, and emotional development. … provides an accessible and valuable resource for the nonscientific expert. The authors also … highlight potential health problems in the fetus and developing child that may arise in response to pain and stress.” (Katherine Helming, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter, 2009)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giuseppe Buonocore is full professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Unit of Neonatology of the University Hospital of Siena.
He is involved in the coordination of numerous pan-European clinical trials, as for example of the European scientific network EURAIBI (acronym for EURope Against Infant Brain Injury). His research interests are in the mechanisms of cell damage in the neonatal brain, with special reference to hypoxia, the role of oxidant radicals in neonatal diseases and in babies with birth asphyxia. Additional research interest fields are ethics in perinatology and fetal and neonatal pain prevention. His research team is funded by several agencies including the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research -cofinance scheme for research projects of high national interest as well as European Community : NEOBRAIN project.
Author of more than 100 scientific publications in international journals with IF ("Pediatric Research", "Biology of Neonate", "Free Radical Biology and Medicine","Acta Pediatrica", "Archives Diseases in Children", " Journal of Pediatrics" and others).
He is Past-President of the European Society for Pediatric Research, and currently a member of the Editorial Board of "Biology of Neonate".
Dr. Bellieni, author of a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Pain, works in the University Hospital of Siena as well, and is a member of several national and international societiesm suche as the European Society of Pediatric Research, the Italian Society of Pediatrics and the Italian Society of Neonatology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neonatal Pain
Book Subtitle: Suffering, Pain, and Risk of Brain Damage in the Fetus and Newborn
Editors: Giuseppe Buonocore, Carlo V. Bellieni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0732-1
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-0732-1Published: 13 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 172
Topics: Pediatrics, Pain Medicine, Gynecology, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Neurology, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics