Events

Event Description

The talk will explore the lack of anesthesia and pain control offered to neonates as most clinicians believed that neonates did not experience pain and if they did, they did not remember it. In the 1980s, parents began to protest the lack of attention to neonatal pain and clinicians began to systematically research how to assess and address neonatal pain. But it took another decade for clinical care to routinely address neonatal pain.

Event Speaker

Johanna Schoen, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University

Event Information

Open to Columbia University ID holders; registration required. Please email Elijah Ferrante at [email protected] with any questions. 

Hosted by the History of Medicine Workshop at Columbia University.