> But it is funny that someone with a PhD. does not know ligation from
> litigation....
Yes. No. It's pathetic.
> However, If that is what caught your attention, then you must feel
> the same as the medical establishment (at the time & perhaps still
> for many) that the preemie (or/and infant) has no physical
> sensation.
No, it's just that I've known about the subject for years so it's not
news to me. I think the notion that babies don't feel pain is absurd.
I'd be willing to quibble over perinatal trauma since being squeezed
through a keyhole has been natural childbirth more or less forever. A
long-term psych/emotional study of a largish cohort, controlling for
vaginal vs. cesarean delivery would be interesting. There probably is
one somewhere. Even so, I'd expect that pain signals reach the
brain. It remains unclear if such signals are recorded in any way that
amounts to lasting emotional trauma.
Is it okay to hurt people if you can guarantee that they don't
remember it? What's "remember"? Are there emotional or mental
sequelae to pain (or even scary conversation in the OR) even though
the patient has no conscious recollection of it? What if the patient
was unconscious -- anaesthetized -- when the pain/scariness happened?
Is pain the occurance of certain events in certain neural pathways
independant of cognitive state or is it a cognitive event that cannot
be said to have occured unless the subject is aware of it? What is the
nature of subjective experience in the perinatal/prenatal brain?
So it's not all perfectly clear. But I'm sure infants feel pain.
Okay?
- Mike
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