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Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable – Contents

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Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable – Contents

William A. Silverman, M.D.
Greenbrae, California

Copyright © 1980 Grune & Stratton, Inc.
New York, New York

Dr. SIlverman’s book is published on this web site with the permission of the Author. Click here to view the letter of permission.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1 – A New Affliction in Premature Infants

Chapter 2 – The Evolvement of Care for Feeble and Prematurely Born Infants

Chapter 3 – The First Decade of RLF

Chapter 4 – The Oxygen Hypothesis

Chapter 5 – The Eye and Oxygen

Chapter 6 – The National Cooperative Study

Chapter 7 – Oxygen Treatment Practices in Premature Infant Care

Chapter 8 – The Consequences of Oxygen Restriction

Chapter 9 – The Determinative Era of Oxygen Treatment

Chapter 10 – Medical Inflation

Chapter 11 – The Price of Progress

Chapter 12 – Progress in a Groove

Chapter 13 – The Experimental Method in Clinical Studies of Children

Chapter 14 – The Future for Clinical Studies Involving American Children

Appendix A – “Causes” of RLF (1942-1952) (PDF file will open in a separate tab or window)

Appendix B – Cooperative Study of RLF (1953-1954) Coordination Committee

Appendix C – Cooperative Study of RLF (1953-1954) Cooperating Hospitals

Appendix D – Methodological Standards for Randomized Clinical Trials

Notes and References

Bibliography

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