Join Johanna Schoen as she investigates the history of parent activism as parents, in the early 1980s, began to lobby for more humane NICU care. Dr. Schoen will discuss clinical care in the NICU during this time period, the critiques that parents brought to the NICU, and the impact that their criticism had on shaping NICU care in the 21st century.
Johanna Schoen, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rutgers University
Jason Chin, Ph.D., professor of chemistry & chemical biology, University of Cambridge; programme leader, division of protein & nucleic acid chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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