The extremely premature babies who are hospitalized in a neonatal intensive-care unit are babies in danger. And if they manage to survive in their incubators, how can they begin to grasp the world outside? If a baby is attached to a machine and partially cut off from the Other, what possibilities does it have of becoming a subject?
We are aware of some of babies' extraordinary capacities, but what do we know about their experience of these extremely difficult and painful living conditions, of having been cast into a strange and hostile world? How can their families and doctors...
The extremely premature babies who are hospitalized in a neonatal intensive-care unit are babies in danger. And if they manage to survive in their inc...