The Framework

Abstract

In the history of medicine major advances promising new-found health paradoxically have sometimes led to emergence of new disease. A significant instance of this advance and retreat is seen in the annals of diabetes mellitus, a record of human success in whose train there emerged tough new questions. Questions presented by our subjects, the embryos and newborn infants of pregnant diabetic women. The focus here is on the hazards faced by them, introduced by a main concern, death of the newborn.