Jeffrey P Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3946373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey P Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey P |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring Racial Disparities in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The paradox of excess mortality among White Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic has long puzzled historians and scientists. Recent scholarship has suggested that this disparity was not true for the country as a whole, but rather regional variation was observed. The factors influencing these disparities remain speculative. A case study was conducted of Durham, North Carolina, a city known nationally for the achievements of its Black middl…
Tapping Historians' Capacities to Confront Racism at Academic Health Centers
Can Insiders Be Activists? Narrating Local History Truthfully in an Academic Health Center
History of Medicine in the Clerkships
The history of medicine has only unevenly been integrated into medical education. Previous attempts to incorporate the subject have focused either on the first year, with its already over-subscribed curriculum, or the fourth year in the form of electives that reach a small minority of students. Duke University provides an alternative model for other universities to consider. At our institution we have overcome many of the curricular limitations b…
A scalable computational approach to assessing response to name in toddlers with autism
BACKGROUND: This study is part of a larger research program focused on developing objective, scalable tools for digital behavioral phenotyping. We evaluated whether a digital app delivered on a smartphone or tablet using computer vision analysis (CVA) can elicit and accurately measure one of the most common early autism symptoms, namely failure to respond to a name call. METHODS: During a pediatric primary care well-child visit, 910 toddlers, 17-…
History Lesson
Mercury, Vaccines, and Autism
The controversy regarding the once widely used mercury-containing preservative thimerosal in childhood vaccines has raised many historical questions that have not been adequately explored. Why was this preservative incorporated in the first place? Was there any real evidence that it caused harm? And how did thimerosal become linked in the public mind to the “autism epidemic”? I examine the origins of the thimerosal controversy and their legacy fo…
Baker Responds
A Doctor of Their Own
This well-researched account of the rise of adolescent medicine offers an excellent model of how professional specialty history ought to be written. A Doctor of Their Own is centered on the interaction of adolescent patients and the professionals who aspired to care for them, set against the background of changing societal attitudes regarding adolescence. Central to Heather Prescott's argument is that adolescents themselves shaped the rise of ado…
Newborn Medicine and Society
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 4, Winter 1999
Small and Special
Reviewed by: Small and Special: The Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain. Medical History Jeffrey P. Baker Elizabeth M. R. Lomax. Small and Special: The Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain. Medical History, Suppl. No. 16. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996. vii + 217 pp. Ill. $38.00 (U.S.); £25.00 (worldwide). (Distributed by Professional and Scientific Publication, BMA House,…
The Machine in the Nursery
Mercury, Vaccines, and Autism
The controversy regarding the once widely used mercury-containing preservative thimerosal in childhood vaccines has raised many historical questions that have not been adequately explored. Why was this preservative incorporated in the first place? Was there any real evidence that it caused harm? And how did thimerosal become linked in the public mind to the “autism epidemic”? I examine the origins of the thimerosal controversy and their legacy fo…
History Lesson
Small and Special
Reviewed by: Small and Special: The Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain. Medical History Jeffrey P. Baker Elizabeth M. R. Lomax. Small and Special: The Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain. Medical History, Suppl. No. 16. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996. vii + 217 pp. Ill. $38.00 (U.S.); £25.00 (worldwide). (Distributed by Professional and Scientific Publication, BMA House,…
The Machine in the Nursery
Newborn Medicine and Society
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 4, Winter 1999
A Doctor of Their Own
This well-researched account of the rise of adolescent medicine offers an excellent model of how professional specialty history ought to be written. A Doctor of Their Own is centered on the interaction of adolescent patients and the professionals who aspired to care for them, set against the background of changing societal attitudes regarding adolescence. Central to Heather Prescott's argument is that adolescents themselves shaped the rise of ado…
Mercury, Vaccines, and Autism
The controversy regarding the once widely used mercury-containing preservative thimerosal in childhood vaccines has raised many historical questions that have not been adequately explored. Why was this preservative incorporated in the first place? Was there any real evidence that it caused harm? And how did thimerosal become linked in the public mind to the “autism epidemic”? I examine the origins of the thimerosal controversy and their legacy fo…
Baker Responds
History Lesson
A scalable computational approach to assessing response to name in toddlers with autism
BACKGROUND: This study is part of a larger research program focused on developing objective, scalable tools for digital behavioral phenotyping. We evaluated whether a digital app delivered on a smartphone or tablet using computer vision analysis (CVA) can elicit and accurately measure one of the most common early autism symptoms, namely failure to respond to a name call. METHODS: During a pediatric primary care well-child visit, 910 toddlers, 17-…
History of Medicine in the Clerkships
The history of medicine has only unevenly been integrated into medical education. Previous attempts to incorporate the subject have focused either on the first year, with its already over-subscribed curriculum, or the fourth year in the form of electives that reach a small minority of students. Duke University provides an alternative model for other universities to consider. At our institution we have overcome many of the curricular limitations b…
Tapping Historians' Capacities to Confront Racism at Academic Health Centers
Can Insiders Be Activists? Narrating Local History Truthfully in an Academic Health Center
Exploring Racial Disparities in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The paradox of excess mortality among White Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic has long puzzled historians and scientists. Recent scholarship has suggested that this disparity was not true for the country as a whole, but rather regional variation was observed. The factors influencing these disparities remain speculative. A case study was conducted of Durham, North Carolina, a city known nationally for the achievements of its Black middl…
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Autism (2 works) · Biology (2 works)