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baumslag (baumslag.com) is Dr. Naomi Baumslag’s website featuring public health, medicine, and ethics for all people. It contains her personal weblog filled with articles about breastfeeding and other issues.
Dr. Naomi Baumslag is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical School and President of the Womens’ International Public Health Network. She is an expert in public health and has been an advisor to many international agencies. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa she obtained her MD at the Witwatersrand University Medical School, Johannesburg and her MPH at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. Dr Baumslag worked in clinics in South African townships and in the United States for under-served populations. She has written 15 books and over 150 journal articles. She has extensively researched the relationship of health professionals and human rights both during the holocaust and in apartheid South Africa and served on national and international human rights committees. Dr. Baumslag lectures widely both nationally and internationally. She now lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Ralph.
To contact me, either leave a comment on this page or e-mail me at baumslag _awt_ baumslag _dawt_ com.
Hi Naomi,
I already started a comment but must have accidentally pushed a key and it disappeared….Anyway, your essay documenting your family’s history in Shavlon was fascinating. I am grateful that my family left much sooner…in the late 1880’s and 1890s. My father’s family name was “Fribush” but I suspect that it is derived from the first name Feivel, Feivish, or Fybush. His mother was also from Shavlon and she was a Jacobson..or Yankelowitz and she also was related to the Calmenowiz family as well.
My cousin, Linda Millison, will surely call you to get your recommendations regarding her trip in September to Lithuania and Latvia.
It was great to talk to you.
Jackie
Hello Dr. Baumslag,
I recently read your article “Tricks of the Infant Food Industry” on westonaprice.org. I cannot heal the world’s ills or arrest the criminals involved. But I can do what is right for my family. My wife and I just had our child born 3 months prematurely this morning. Thankfully, at this time the child does well. Should I be concerned that the hospital will soon infuse the baby with some kind of manufactured “formula food”, or will they use mother’s milk as the food preference? I am afraid the hospital may tell me that this frail child is going on infant formula, although my wife has no problems producing milk. Should I be concerned, according to your experience? Thank you very much! -Ken
Ken:
Thank-you for asking me, and congratulations on your new baby! I urge you to let your pediatrician know that your wife has plenty of breastmilk and that you want to use it for your baby - ask your pediatrician for “expressed breastmilk” from your wide. If s/he says that infant formula is needed, ask him why, and possibly find a new doctor. Please let me know what happens in regard to this issue!
All the best,
Dr. Naomi Baumslag
Hello Naomi,
I loved your book “Milk, money and madness” and I don’t understand why such an important book is not yet translated in french. I could contact some publishers and make it translated but I wonder if you wouldn’t want to have a new edition, to update your book and to have both an american and a french new editions.
Thank you by advance for your answer !
Best,
Emilie (from Paris & Boston)
Emily,
That is a great thought and I would definitely like a French version of Milk, Money, and Madness!
I have contacted you via e-mail.
Dr. Naomi Baumslag
Hi Naomi
I have been thinking a lot about you recently - i would love to get in touch with you. I am in DC and will be here untill 9 Feb.
Have to see you so please let me have your contact number/s.
As always, respecting you for the way your books and working with you has helped me grow both personally and professionally.
Fondly
Gail
Gail Andrews
South Africa
Dr. Baumslag,
Do you know what the relationship between Mead Johnson ( makers of Enfamil infant formula) and Johnson & Johnson are? I have been trying to find a link between the two, maybe you can help me.
Thank you, Maria
Dear Dr. Baumslag,
I am an author and filmmaker who is very interested in your MURDEROUS MEDICINE book, particularly your mention of Hans Zinsser, typhus, disinfection, zyklon, and other topics. I have a book due out soon from the University of California Press about the history of the gas chamber, and I am also writing a documentary film with a German director about some of this. Might it be possible for me to speak with you on the phone for a few minutes sometime at your convenience sometime during the next 2 weeks?
Thanks and best wishes,
Scott
Scott Christianson, Ph.D.
518-674-8662
Dear Naomi,
What a beautiful and interesting website. It looks like you have had a very interesting and worthwhile career. Thanks for sharing the info about HALF THE SKY.
Take care,
Kathryn Rouse
Will there be a updated/ revised edition of Milk, Money, and Madness? I loved it and would like to know how some of the statistics, politics,.. have changed since 95.