EDUCATION:
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department
of History, 1998
TEACHING AREAS:
History of Women’s and Children’s Health
History of Public Health
History of Biomedical Ethics
History of Obstetrics
History of Pediatrics
CLASSES OFFERED:
Women’s Health and
Medicine in U.S. History
History of Public Health Disasters
CURRENT RESEARCH:
History of Cesarean Section
20th Century Public Health Crusades: The Life and
Times of Herman N. Bundesen
BOOKS:
Wolf, Jacqueline H., Deliver Me from Pain:
Anesthesia and Birth in America (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2009).
Wolf, Jacqueline H., Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public
Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th
and 20th Centuries (Ohio State
University Press, 2001).
SELECTED ARTICLES:
Wolf, Jacqueline H., "Got Milk? Not in Public!"
International Breastfeeding Journal, 3 (2008),
http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/3/1/11.
Wolf, Jacqueline H.,
"The First Generation of American Pediatricians and
Their Inadvertent Legacy to Breastfeeding,"
Breastfeeding Medicine, 1 (2006): 172-177.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “What Feminists Can Do for
Breastfeeding and What Breastfeeding Can Do for
Feminists,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society, 31 (Winter 2006) 397-424.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “Low Breastfeeding Rates and
Public Health in the United States,” American
Journal of Public Health 93 (December 2003):
2000-2010.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “‘Mighty Glad to Gasp in the
Gas’: Perceptions of Pain and the Traditional Timing
of Obstetric Anesthesia,” Health: An
Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of
Health, Illness and Medicine 6 (July 2002): 365-387.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “The Social and Medical
Construction of Lactation Pathology,” Women &
Health, 30 (2000): 93-110.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “‘Mercenary Hirelings’ or ‘A
Great Blessing’?: Doctors’ and Mothers’ Conflicted
Perceptions of Wet Nurses and the Ramifications for
Infant Feeding in Chicago, 1871-1961,” Journal of
Social History, 33 (Fall 1999): 97-120.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “‘Let Us Have More Mother-Fed
Babies’: Early Twentieth-Century Breastfeeding
Campaigns in Chicago and Minneapolis,” Journal of
Human Lactation, 15 (June 1999): 101-105.
Wolf, Jacqueline H., “‘Don’t Kill Your Baby’:
Feeding Infants in Chicago, 1903-1924,” Journal of
the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 53
(July 1998): 219-253.
RECENT SELECTED INVITED
TALKS:
“Despite the Risk: Lay and Medical Perceptions of
Obstetric Anesthesia,” The Annual Iago
Galdston Memorial Lecture, Historical Perspectives
on Reducing Maternal Mortality, The New
York Academy of Medicine, October 30, 2008, NYC, NY.
“The Medical and Social Origins of Breastfeeding
Myths,” School of Public Health/
Preventive Medicine Resident Seminar/Department of
Social Medicine Faculty Forum,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October
15, 2008.
“Got Milk? Not in Public!” AHEC Art of Breastfeeding
Conference, keynote speaker, Friday
Center, October 14, 2008, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
“‘Powder and Lipstick Were On Just So’: The Ideal
Woman, Perceptions of Labor Pain,
and the Use of Obstetric Anesthesia,” Programs in
Medical Classics 2007-2008,
sponsored by the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical
Library History & Special Collections,
UCLA Faculty Center, October 16, 2007, Los Angeles,
CA.
“‘Rolling a Bowling Ball through the Vagina’:
History of the Rationales and Realities of the
Cesarean Section Rate,” History of Science
Colloquium, University of California, Los Angeles,
October 15, 2007. |
