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Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Wolf, Jacqueline

Paperback

Series: Women Gender and Health

Medical ReferenceWomen's Health

ISBN10: 0814250777
ISBN13: 9780814250778
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jan 25 2001
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
How did breastfeeding--once accepted as the essence of motherhood and essential to the well-being of infants--come to be viewed with distaste and mistrust? Why did mothers come to choose artificial food over human milk, despite the health risks? In this history of infant feeding, Jacqueline H. Wolf focuses on turn-of-the-century Chicago as a microcosm of the urbanizing United States. She explores how economic pressures, class conflict, and changing views of medicine, marriage, efficiency, self-control, and nature prompted increasing numbers of women and, eventually, doctors to doubt the efficacy and propriety of breastfeeding. Examining the interactions among women, dairies, and health care providers, Wolf uncovers the origins of contemporary attitudes toward and myths about breastfeeding.

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