The Heberden Society presents Johanna Schoen, PhD

Glasnost and Perestroika in the NICU: Clinical Care and Parent Activism in the History of Neonatal Intensive Care

Please join the Heberden Society on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 5 PM EST for "Glasnost and Perestroika in the NICU: Clinical Care and Parent Activism in the History of Neonatal Intensive Care." Johanna Schoen, PhD 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 is professor of History at Rutgers University- New Brunswick with an affiliation at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. She is the author of two books: Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) and Abortion After Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), which won the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. In addition, she has edited an anthology on Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies (Rutgers University Press, 2022.) For the past decades, she has worked with abortion providers to preserve the history of legal abortion in the United States and to use historical analysis and insights to help preserve access to abortion care. She is now working on a book, Life and Death in the Nursery, on the history of NICUs, for which she received a three-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine.

This is a hybrid lecture, co-sponsored with the New York Academy of Medicine. Onsite attendance is available in A-126 (1300 York Avenue.) Virtual attendance is available here