Is breast best?: taking on the breastfeeding experts and the new high stakes of motherhood
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Main Author: Wolf, Joan B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York New York University Press © 2011
Series:Biopolitics
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 241 pages)
ISBN:0814794815
0814795250
9780814794814
9780814795255