Jeffrey Paul Baker, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics

Department:
Pediatrics

Division:
Children's Primary Care

Email:
baker009mcdukeedu

Mailing Address:
Box 3040, DUMC
Durham, NC 27710

Telephone:
919-620-5374

Training:
M.D., Duke University School of MedicinePh.D., Duke University

Last Updated:
July 21, 2008

Clinical Interests:
General pediatrics

Research Interests:
My formal training (PhD) is in the history of medicine. I am particularly interested in the history of Pediatrics in the following areas of study.
- Neonatal Medicine
- Preventive Pediatrics
- Childhood Immunizations
 -Autism

My current work focuses on the history of autism, focused on the United States and Britain.

Publications:
2008 -- Pubmed # 18172138 -- Baker JP. Mercury, vaccines, and autism: one controversy, three histories. Am J Public Health. 2008 Feb;98(2):244-53.

2004 -- Pubmed # 14630981 -- Baker JP, Katz SL. Childhood vaccine development: an overview. Pediatr Res. 2004 Feb;55(2):347-56.

2003 -- Pubmed # 12922137 -- Baker JP. The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986. Vaccine. 2003 Sep 8;21(25-26):4003-10.

2002 -- 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)

2000 -- Pubmed # 10667180 -- Baker JP. Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines. Am J Public Health. 2000 Feb;90(2):199-207.

2000 -- Pubmed # 10920793 -- Baker JP. The incubator and the medical discovery of the premature infant. J Perinatol. 2000 Jul-Aug;20(5):321-8.

1996 -- Baker, Jeffrey P.  The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and  the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)