Links
Incubator Exhibits and Sideshows
- Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition Article from HistoryLink.org (captured as PDF)
- American Characters: Martin Couney, from American Heritage Magazine (captured as PDF)
- “And Next to the Bearded Ladies…” from The New York Times (captured as PDF)
- The Coney Island Baby Laboratory, from American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine (captured as PDF)
- The Child Hatchery, by Joseph Hart, Minneapolis/St. Paul CityPages. (captured PDF)
- Incubator Baby Shows: A Medical and Social Frontier, by Hannah Lieberman. (Also available as captured PDF)
- Kinderbrutanstalt: Leisure Space and the Coney Island Baby Incubators, by Scott Webel, Text, Performance, Practice, 2003. (captured PDF)
- Pan-American Exposition Baby Incubator Exhibit in Buffalo, New York, 1901 (from the U. of Buffalo Library web site)
- Premie Road Shows from Hippocrates (captured PDF)
- Transferring the Incubator: Fairs and Freak-Shows as Agents of Change, by Katie Proctor, 2004. (captured PDF)
Neonatal Care
- A Century of Neonatal Medicine from the Minnesota Medicine web site (captured PDF)
- Blue Baby Operation (captured PDF)
- French articles on early neonatal and obstetric care (captured PDF)
- History of Perinatal Medicine, by Dr. Paul Toubas, formerly of Univ. of Ohio Health Sciences Center
- “Incubator Rooms” Save Premature Babies’ Lives, Life Magazine, 1939
- Infant Summer Hospital, Rochester, New York, ca. 1885
- Neonatal Intensive Care, A History of Excellence. From an NIH Symposium on October 7, 1985. Includes some interesting historical notes by Drs. Gluck, Butterfield, and Sunshine, among others.
- Neonatal Resuscitation ca. 1944
- Neonatal Transportation Through the Course of History (also available captured as a PDF file )
- Origins of Neonatal Intensive Care in the U.K., a Witness Seminar held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, on 27 April 1999. Posted here by permission.
- Pioneers in the Scientific Study of Neonatal Jaundice and Kernicterus by Thor Willy Ruud Hansen, MD, PhD, from Pediatrics 106(2):e15, August, 2000.
- Premature Newborn Care ca. 1940 at Harlem Hospital, New York City
- The Evolution of Neonatology, by Alistair G. S. Philip, Pediatric Research, October, 2005.
- The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention, a Witness Seminar held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, on 3 June 2003. Posted here by permission.
- Born Too Soon, The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth, WHO, 2012.
- Surgery for Transposition of Great Arteries: A Historical Perspective, Ann Pediatr Cardiology 2015
Other Articles and Books
- AAP Historical Archives Advisory Committee: American Pediatrics: Milestones at the Millenium from Pediatrics, June, 2001.
- “Cautionary Tales” from the James Lind Library web site, by Dr. William A. Silverman, 2003. (captured PDF )
- Cesarean Section – A Brief History (captured PDF)
- Dying to Have a Baby – The History of Childbirth
- History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine
- History of Midwifery in the United States
- Infantile Scurvy: A Historical Perspective by Kumaravel Rajakumar, MD, from Pediatrics Electronic Pages 108(4):e76, October, 2001.
- Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World
- Multiple Births in Legend and Folklore (also available captured as PDF file )
- Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality, John Graunt, 1662 (captured PDF)
- “Some Physic for the Child: Robert Pernell’s De Morbis Puerorum, 1653″, by William Brockbank. (captured PDF)
Diversions
Last Updated on 02/19/26