Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1895-1977
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Physician.
From the description of Edith Banfield Jackson papers, 1939-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984590
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.
From the description of Interview transcript, 1970. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007781
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.
From the description of Edith Banfield Jackson papers, 1947-1959 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168948
From the guide to the Edith Banfield Jackson papers, 1947-1959, (Manuscripts and Archives)
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.
From the description of Papers, 1878-1977 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006677
From the description of Additional papers, 1878-1977 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 528755168
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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
Occupations:
- Pediatricians
- Physicians
- Psychiatrists
Places:
- United States (as recorded)
- Vienna (Austria) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
