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From the files of NeoReviews comes this collection of Perinatal Profiles, chosen to provide a glimpse into the lives of the "movers and shakers" in neonatal/perinatal medicine.

Much of this collection has been written by the students of these pioneers who have gone on to become key NPM innovators themselves. They provide rare insight into the personalities of their mentors and the development of NPM.

You'll meet such luminaries as:

Alex Minkowski, MD, whose life's work, including a conference on whether assisted ventilation did more harm than good, led French President Jacques Chirac in 2004 to call him "one of the consciences of the 20th century."
Martin Couney, MD, who in 1896 began 40 years of organizing preterm baby "child hatchery" sideshows to showcase the marvels of incubator technology at expositions, state fairs, traveling circuses-even Coney Island!-showing the public that even the most severely preterm infants had a chance for survival.
Elizabeth Blackwell, Marie Putnam Jacobi, Elizabeth Garret, and Madeleine Bres, the first female physicians caring for women and children at the end of the 19th century. All struggled for admission to medical school yet eventually managed to pierce the armor of sex bias.
Ignac Fuloep Semmelweis, the Hungarian pioneer of antisepsis who first demonstrated that most childbed fever cases could be prevented-one of the most important discoveries of 19th-century medicine-yet was ridiculed and released in disgrace from his Viennese hospital and medical school faculty posts.
Cathy Cropley, the Seattle nurse who wove nurses into the fabric of neonatal resuscitation as team members and instructors, insisting that skill take precedence over title.

This collection of 26 key columns was compiled and edited by NeoReviews Editor-in-Chief Alistair G.S. Philip, MD, FRCPE, FAAP, in honor of the 15th anniversary of NeoReviews, the American Academy of Pediatrics' online journal of neonatology.

Contents:

Introduction
Perinatal Profiles: Dr Julius Hess and His Incubator
Perinatal Profiles: William Little and Cerebral Palsy
Perinatal Profiles: Ian Donald and Obstetric Diagnostic Ultrasound
Perinatal Profiles: Childbed Fever and IgnAc FUElOEp Semmelweis
Perinatal Profiles: Sir Joseph Barcroft: The 20th Century's Renaissance Perinatal Physiologist
Perinatal Profiles: Geoffrey S. Dawes: A Neonatologist's Appreciation
Perinatal Profiles: Robert McCance and Elsie Widdowson: Pioneers in Neonatal Science
Perinatal Profiles: Alexandre Minkowski: Founder of "Biology of the Neonate"
Perinatal Profiles: Clem Smith: A Gentle Gardener
Perinatal Profiles: Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia: Obstetric Physiologist Extraordinary
Perinatal Profiles: Professor John (Johnny) Lind, Neonatology Pioneer
Perinatal Profiles: John William Ballantyne: Scottish Obstetrician and Prolific Writer
Perinatal Profiles: Pierre Budin: The Fight Against Maternal and Infant Mortality
Perinatal Profiles: Jim Farquhar and Infants of Diabetic Mothers
Perinatal Profiles: Bill Kitchen and Very Low-birthweight Infants
Perinatal Profiles: Dr Colette Dreyfus-Brisac: Development of Brain Electrocortical Activity
Perinatal Profiles: Arvo YlppOE: Little Big Man
Perinatal Profiles: Klaus Riegel: A Swabian "Someone"
Perinatal Profiles: Bengt Robertson: A Pioneer of Surfactant Research
Perinatal Profiles: Bent Friis-Hansen: A Danish Pioneer of Neonatology
Perinatal Profiles: Cathy Cropley, RN, MS: A Partner in Developing NRP
Perinatal Profiles: Martin Couney and Newborn Infant Sideshows
Pioneer Women in Neonatology: Part 1: 1870-1945
Pioneer Women in Neonatology: Part 2: 1945-1960
Pioneer Women in Neonatology: Part 3: The Roaring Sixties (1960-1980)
Perinatal Profiles: Elie Metchnikoff: Probiotic Pioneer
Index