ABSTRACT
There are technological artifices directly connected to the child: intravenous lines, breathing tube, and monitoring wires. Perhaps it is due to their plainness that the people easily forget that they too entangle and disentangle the touch of a parent's encounter with his or her child. Stiegler has suggested that technics, the technologies that keep the reader warm and fed and comfortable, are the ancient humanizing forces in the history of humanity and the development of human communities. In the NICU, the ontology of technics is the medical expression of old and modern anthropological technologies. A distinction may be made between the ethical significance and the moral relevance of technologies. The moral relevance speaks to the way that technical devices open up (effect) new possibilities for human actions in the socio-political order of things. The psychology and anthropology of touch and bonding signifies the importance of the subtleties and complexities of contact.
