John W. Moses Jr., MD

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• Children's Primary Care

Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Primary Care Pediatrics

Address:
DUMC 3675
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 620-5333

Office Telephone:
(919) 620-5374

Fax Telephone:
(919) 471-3820

• M.D., Medical University of South Carolina, 1983

• Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital, Massachusetts, 1983-85
• Pediatrics, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut, 1985-86

Clinical Interests:
General pediatrics, adolescent medicine, migrant health care

Research Interests:
My primary research effort continues to be documentary photography, an important component of the medical humanities.
I have published a book, entitled The Youngest Parents, which concerned with the pressing issue of adolescent pregnancy.  I collaborated on this project with psychiatrist Robert Coles, M.D., whose text accompanied approximately forty photographs I prepared following numerous home visits with teen parents in North Carolina.  I also contributed a written description of my experiences while conducting this research, drawing upon tape-recorded interviews.  An exhibition of my photographs coincided with publication of the book.
In association with Duke's Infant Care Project, I am also in the midst of conducting a home-based photo documentary study of women with a history of substance abuse and their children.  This effort is meant to link the world of those who abuse drugs with the clinic-based problems health professionals must confront with increasing frequency.  Out of this exploration, new insights, research ideas and interventions could emerge.

Representative Publications:
Seven photographs of adolescent parents In: proceedings of The Third Annual Women's Studies Graduate Research Conference, Duke University, 1992. (1992)

Two photographs of adolescent parents In: Latent Image, Duke University, 1993. (1993)

Three photographs In: Hidden Hunger, The Face of Hunger Among Families and Children in North Carolina. School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, 1995. (1995)

Six photographs of adolescent parents In: Adolescents in Need, An Approach for Helping Rural At-Risk Youth. Center for Early Adolescence, UNC, 1990. (1990)

Three photographs of migrant farmworkers In: 1991-92 report of Family Health International, RTP, NC, 1993. (1991)