Dr. Jeffrey Baker is Director of the Program in the History of Medicine, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. A medical historian, Baker works on issues in medical technology and child health, such as the evolution of premature infant technology. Much of this work is synthesized in his comparative history of the origins of neonatal medicine in France and the United States, The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). He is studying 20th-century controversies involving childhood immunizations and the role of the whooping cough vaccine in shaping U.S. immunization policy since 1974.
| Website | http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/jeffrey.baker |
| Email address | jeffrey.baker@duke.edu |
| Phone number | 919-620-5374 |
| Categories | Bioethics, education, Government & politics, Health care, Medical ethics, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | North Carolina, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Languages | English |