Fran Lang Porter

Fran Lang Porter, Ph.D., is a noted researcher into pain and its effects. She was a member of the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She has published important research regarding the pain of unanesthetized non-therapeutic infant male circumcision.

Publications

• Porter FL, Miller RH, Marshall RE. Neonatal pain cries: effect of circumcision on acoustic features and perceived urgency. Child Dev. June 1986; 57(3): 790-802. PMID. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
• Porter FL, Porges SW, Marshall RE. Newborn pain cries and vagal tone: parallel changes in response to circumcision. Child Dev. April 1988; 59(2): 495-505. PMID. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
• Marshall RE, Porter FL, Rogers AG, et al. Circumcision: II. Effects upon mother-infant interaction. Early Hum Dev. December 1982; 7(4): 367-74. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  Quote: A stressful, painful event such as circumcision, however, still appears to affect the feeding patterns of infants who have recently undergone circumcision.
• Porter FL, Wolf CM, Miller JP. Procedural pain in newborn infants: the influence of intensity and development. Pediatrics. July 1999; 104(1): e13. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
• Porter FL, Grunau FE, Anand KJ. Long-term effects of pain in infants. J Dev Behav Pediatr. August 1999; 20(4): 253-61. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 23 October 2023.

See also

• Pain

External links

• Fran Lang Porter's research, ResearchGate. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
• Hill G (December 2004). Pain of circumcision and pain control, Circumcision Reference Library. Retrieved 23 October 2023.