 Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD Director, Program in the History of Medicine, Dr. Baker's work as a medical historian has concentrated on medical technology, ethics and child health. He has lectured and written extensively on the evolution of premature infant technology. Much of this work is synthesized in his comparative history 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). At present he engaged on a study of childhood vaccine controversies in the United States and Great Britain since 1970. Dr. Baker directs the Medical History Program of the School of Medicine, in which capacity he teaches at all levels of undergraduate and graduate medical education. Since 1995 he has also directed the University’s most prestigious academic merit scholarship, the A.B. Duke Scholarship Program. Dr. Baker practices general pediatrics and serves on the Historical Archives advisory Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. |