Is Breast Best? : Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood /
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...
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Biopolitics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 2. The Science
- 3. Minding Your Own (Risky) Business
- 4. From the Womb to the Breast
- 5. Scaring Mothers
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author