As recently as 1985, babies were operated on without anesthesia because doctors believed they feel no pain!
The author of this paper shows how babies and infants have been treated as lesser beings in the past because of the fact that they haven’t developed their full cognitive capacities. People have judged babies’ cries as ‘random sounds’ and their smiles as ‘muscle spasms.’
This seemed to be confirmed through science because babies would be pinched and prodded with needles when they…
