Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1895-1977
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Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1896-1977.
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Pediatrician and child psychiatrist, Jackson helped establish and directed a rooming-in unit, where a newborn child stayed with its mother, at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, later the Yale Medical Center.
Edith Banfield Jackson was born in 1895. A graduate of Vassar College (B.A. 1916) and John Hopkins University (M.D. 1921), Jackson held various teaching positions at the Yale University School of Medicine from 1924 to 1929. After a brief hiatus in which she underwent training and analysis with Sigmund Freud, she returned to Yale in 1936 as professor in pediatrics and psychiatry and remained until her retirement in 1959. A child psychiatrist and pioneer in family-centered maternity and infant care and parent-infant bonding, she is best known for her work on the Yale Rooming-In Research Project. She developed the rooming-in plan to allow parents to have an increased role in the care of their newborn children within hospitals. From 1946 to 1952 Jackson directed the experimental rooming-in unit at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. The project served as the model for a new obstetrical unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital and stimulated change in the institutionalized care of mothers and infants.
Pediatrician and child psychiatrist (Vassar, 1916; Johns Hopkins University, M.D., 1921), Jackson studied at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, where she was psychoanalyzed by Freud, helped Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham establish an experimental all-day nursery school, and aided Austrian-Jewish refugees. She taught pediatrics and psychiatry at Yale Medical School and the University of Colorado and helped establish and directed a rooming-in unit, where a newborn child stayed with its mother, at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital and then at Colorado General Hospital.
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Subjects
Abortion
Anorexia nervosa
Breastfeeding
Child analysis
Childbirth
Child care
Child development
Child psychiatry
Circumcision
Civil rights
Day care centers
Families
Family life education
Finance, Personal
Finger sucking
Health
Hospitals
Mental health
Infant health service
Infants
Jewish refugees
Labor (Obstetrics)
Marriage
Maternal and infant welfare
Medicine
Newborn infants
Newborn infants
Nursing
Obstetrics
Parent and child
Physician and patient
Physicians
Rooming
Sacco
Single-parent families
Thumb sucking
Voyages and travels
Women in medicine
Women pediatricians
Women psychiatrists
World War, 1939-1945
Youth and death
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Pediatricians
Physicians
Psychiatrists
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Vienna (Austria)
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