Is breast best?: taking on the breastfeeding experts and the new high stakes of motherhood
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1. Verfasser: Wolf, Joan B. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York University Press © 2011
Schriftenreihe:Biopolitics
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface : why breastfeeding? -- Monitoring mothers : a recent history of following the doctor's orders -- The science : does breastfeeding make smarter, happier, and healthier babies? -- Minding your own (risky) business : health and personal responsibility -- From the womb to the breast : total motherhood and risk-free children -- Scaring mothers : the government campaign for breastfeeding -- Conclusion : whither breastfeeding?
Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercial formula to at least supplement a breastfeeding routine. So how is it that most of those bottle-fed babies grew up to believe that breast, and only breast, is best?. In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superi
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 241 pages)
ISBN:0814794815
0814795250
9780814794814
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