Jacqueline Wolf Interview by Annaleice Geffre, February 19, 2026
Transcript of Wolf Geffree Interview
Interviewee
Wolf, Jacqueline
Interviewer
Geffre, Annaleice
Interview Date
2-19-2026
Description
Jacqueline H. Wolf is Professor Emeritus at Ohio University. She received her PhD in U.S. History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Wolf taught for 24 years at the OU Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine as a member of the Department of Social Medicine, where she served as department chair from 2009 through 2014. She also held adjunct positions in the Ohio University’s Departments of History, Women and Gender Studies, and Health Communications. Wolf is a historian of medicine with expertise in the history of public health, the history of women’s health and medicine, the history of children’s health and medicine, and the history of biomedical ethics. Her research focuses on the history of birth and breastfeeding practices in the United States. She is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters as well as three books: Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Ohio State University Press, 2001); Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009); and Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). From 2018 to 2025, WOUB Public Radio produced Wolf’s podcast, Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery, with Wolf serving as host and executive producer. In 2025, the American Association for the History of Medicine awarded Wolf their highest honor—the Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award
This interview was recorded as part of a class project for Recording Memory: Methods and uses of Oral History, Spring 2026, Alexander G. Lovelace (Ph.D.) Instructor.
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Keywords
oral history, history of medicine, public health, Ohio University, Appalachian Ohio, breastfeeding history, childbirth practices, rural healthcare, shared governance, women's health, higher education
Disciplines
Oral History
Publication Date
Spring 4-14-2026
Interview Location
Athens, Ohio
Digital Publisher
Ohio University Libraries
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
00:54:40
File Format
audio/mpeg
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Wolf, Jacqueline and Geffre, Annaleice, "Jacqueline Wolf Interview by Annaleice Geffre, February 19, 2026" (2026). HIST 4798/5798: Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History. 19.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/hist4798/19