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Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:14:36 -0400
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Hello all. I am a longtime lactnet lurker. I am on the faculty of the
Department of  Social Medicine at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic
Medicine where I teach the history of medicine to medical students. All my
research and writing has focused on the history of breastfeeding in the
United States and I have worked hard to integrate lectures on breastfeeding
and human milk into the medical school curriculum here. I've been so
successful at it that some of our medical students have started to call our
curriculum The BFC (for breastfeeding curriculum).

I cannot even begin to express my gratitude for all I have learned on
lactnet. I have used this forum daily for years to keep up with the latest
literature on breastfeeding and human milk. I want you all to know how far
reaching lactnet's influence is---you have contributed mightily to the "The
BFC" here at Ohio University.

Chicago area lcs might recognize my name---I spoke at both Metropolitan
Illinois Lactation Consultants and Northern Illinois Lactation Consultants
meetings on the history of wet nursing several years ago. I also spoke at an
annual meeting of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and at last year's
Art of Breastfeeding Conference in Chapel Hill, NC on mother/physician
interaction and the decline of breastfeeding in the early 20th century. A
few years back I wrote an article for the JHL on early 20th century
breastfeeding campaigns in Minneapolis and Chicago. I have a book coming out
in November---Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of
Breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The title "Don't Kill Your
Baby" was a headline on a 1910 Chicago public health poster warning mothers
about the dangers of bottle feeding and urging them to breastfeed.

At my husband's urging, I am finally making my first post to lactnet after
all these years of learning from you. I just did a radio show this afternoon
on our local public radio station in honor of World Breastfeeding Week and
he said I should tell you all about it. You can listen to it at:

www.woub.org/radio/studiob.html

I do this show monthly on assorted medical topics and always reserve the
August show for a discussion of breastfeeding and human milk. Let me know
what you think.

Back to lurkdom.

Jackie Wolf

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Jacqueline H. Wolf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine
Department of Social Medicine
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
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