Jeffrey Baker
| Title: | Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and History |
| Office Location: | 6301 Herndon Rd |
| Office Phone: | (919) 620-5374 |
| Email Address: | baker009@mc.duke.edu |
Education
- M.D. Duke University School of Medicine, 1984
- Ph.D. Duke University, 1993
Research Interests
Dr. Baker's research centers on the history of child health and medical technology. Dr. Baker has taught courses on the history of medical ethics, medical technology, and genetics. He has published a book, The Machine in the Nursery, recounting the origins of the premature infant nursery in Europe and the United States. He is now working on a history of immunizations.
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- HISTORY 89FCS.02, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS
- SEE INSTRU, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Representative Publications
Papers Published- JP Baker. "Mercury, vaccines, and autism: one controversy, three histories.." American journal of public health, United States 98:2 (February, 2008): 244-53. [abs]
- JP Baker, SL Katz. "Childhood vaccine development: an overview.." Pediatric research, United States 55:2 (February, 2004): 347-56. [abs]
- JP Baker. "The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986.." Vaccine, Netherlands 21:25-26 (September, 2003): 4003-10. [abs]
- " Baker, J.P. “Technology in the Nursery,” in Formative Years: Children’s Health in the United States 1880-2000, ed. Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002)." .
- JP Baker. "Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines.." American journal of public health, UNITED STATES 90:2 (February, 2000): 199-207. [abs]
- "Book Review: Heather Munro Prescott, A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74 (2000): 409-410." .
- "Book Review: Murdina Desmond, Newborn Medicine and Society. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999): 743-744." .
- "Baker, Jeffrey P. The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)." .
- "Mauro, R.D., Baker, J., and Mackedonski, V. "A Five-year-old Girl with Acute Renal Failure and Multiple Cerebral Infarctions." Journal of Pediatrics 115 (1989):816-823.." .
- JP Baker. "The incubator and the medical discovery of the premature infant.." Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, UNITED STATES 20:5 : 321-8. [abs]