Edith Banfield Jackson papers 1947-1959

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Edith Banfield Jackson papers 1947-1959

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1296

The papers include photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and memorabilia documenting Edith B. Jackson's Yale Rooming-In Research Project at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. The impact of the rooming-in concept on the medical profession is also documented.

4.25 linear feet

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351242

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1895-1977

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Edith Banfield Jackson, pediatrician and child psychiatrist, was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on January 2, 1895, the daughter of William and Helen Fiske (Banfield) Jackson. She was graduated from Vassar College in 1916 and in 1921 received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Following internships in internal medicine at the State University of Iowa Hospital and in pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Jackson went to work at the U.S. Children's ...