Jeffrey Paul Baker

Journal article Am J Public Health · February 2008 Featured Publication 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 ther ... Full text Link to item Cite

Childhood vaccine development: an overview.

Journal article Pediatr Res · February 2004 Featured Publication Vaccines against childhood diseases represent some of the most important applications of 20th-century pediatric research. This survey examines how the components of the current U.S. immunization schedule emerged in three phases during the course of the cen ... Full text Link to item Cite

The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986.

Journal article Vaccine · September 8, 2003 Featured Publication This historical essay analyzes the role played by Great Britain in the pertussis vaccine controversy of the 1970s and 1980s. Public backlash against this vaccine not only took place earlier in Britain than the United States, but also was so widespread that ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines.

Journal article Am J Public Health · February 2000 Featured Publication Childhood immunization constitutes one of the great success stories of American public health in the 20th century. This essay provides a historical examination of this topic through 4 particularly important examples: diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and measl ... Full text Link to item Cite

The incubator and the medical discovery of the premature infant.

Journal article J Perinatol · 2000 Featured Publication The invention of the incubator in 1880 ignited a dramatic outpouring of popular and professional excitement over the prospect of reducing premature infant mortality. Yet the technology itself progressed slowly and fitfully over the next 50 years. The story ... Full text Link to item Cite