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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
c2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31264244*spi |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | xvii, 241 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780814795255 |
