Word: infantability
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...Regarding your article entitled "Biological Imperatives": isn't it typical of this society that doctors should convert an infant with deformed genitalia into a female "with the realization that he could never be a normal man." The fact that "she" could never be a normal woman either does not seem to bother the sex experts...
...Hospital thought that Oliver Clark was a good candidate for hypothermia, and the child's family agreed that the risk was worth taking. Preparations for the operation were painstaking. Oliver's body was packed in ice bags and suspended over a tank of cold water. When the infant's temperature had dropped to about 65° F. and his heart rate to 24 beats per minute, Replogle injected a potassium solution into the heart. That stopped the heart, leaving Oliver in a condition closely resembling death. With the patient's body functions literally frozen, the surgeon...
...infant in Manhattan's Harlem Hospital was smaller than most newborn babies, and his cry was unusually shrill and high-pitched. Within several days after birth, his tormented wails became incessant. His sweating body shook and twitched. Occasionally he vomited. If his condition had gone undiagnosed and untreated, the baby might have suffered a convulsion, which could have been fatal, or have died a slower death by dehydration. But the signs have become all too familiar to inner-city doctors. The child's mother was a narcotics addict, and he was suffering withdrawal from the "habit" forced upon...
...more young female addicts have been enrolled in methadone maintenance programs, however, doctors have discovered a grim paradox: methadone is preferable for the adolescent or adult for a number of reasons-in eluding the fact that it does not normally produce the euphoria of heroin-but for the infant it seems to be even more dangerous than heroin...
...symptoms of withdrawal last longer and worsen progressively," he says. Gartner has recently discovered a rare and particularly ominous methadone problem. Five babies born at the college's affiliate, Abraham Jacobi Hospital, showed no withdrawal signs until between two and three weeks after birth, by which time the infant is usually away from constant medical supervision. Says Gartner: "We presume that there is a large buildup of methadone in the baby, which he slowly uses up and then begins exhibiting signs of withdrawal...