title: [Prenatal medicine: from the obstetric stethoscope to the computerized telecardiotocography].
abstract: The aim of this article is to illustrate the history of fetal auscultation from the 19(th) century, when the fetus was considered as an object and the obstetrician as a ''mechanic of the birth'', to the present age, when the fetus is a subject and the obstetricians have at their disposal all the means they need to confirm his well-being and to early diagnose his pathologies, even using prenatal telemedicine.
authors.affiliation: Unità Operativa Complessa di Medicina dell'Età Prenatale, Dipartimento di Scienze Ostetrico-Ginecologiche Urologiche e Medicina della Riproduzione Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, Via Luca Giordiano 120, 80127 Naples, Italy. dilieto@unina.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Lieto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Falco
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campanile
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scaramellino
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schiraldi
mesh_terms: D015148:Cardiotocography / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D003944:Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological / Q000266:history / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D019023:Stethoscopes / Q000266:history*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000266:history*