Johanna Schoen, Professor of History at Rutgers University, will offer a brief summary of the opening of the Yale-New Haven Special Care Nursery in 1960, the country’s first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and place the history of the unit into the larger context of emerging neonatology and bioethical debates about when to treat severely ill infants, when not to treat, and how much influence to give parents in these decisions.
The talk is in-person and will take place on March 27th at 4:30 p.m. in the Yale Medical Historical Library, 333 Cedar Street.
Submitted by Patricia Brunetto on March 09, 2023