Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Primary Care Pediatrics

Address:
DUMC 3675
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-620-5333

Office Telephone:
919-620-5374

Fax Telephone:
919-572-6000

• MD, Duke University School of Medicine, 1984

• Pediatrics, University of Colorado, 1984-1988

• Ambulatory Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 1988-1991

• PhD, History of Medicine, Duke University, 1993

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.

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

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

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

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) (2002)

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

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

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