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 ****************************************************** Jacqueline H. Wolf, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine Department of Social Medicine Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html