A Social History of Wet Nursing in America
A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle examines the intersection of medical science, social theory, and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians, and families from the colonial period through the twentieth century. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant-feeding problems in the eighteenth century, shows why wet nursing became controversial in the nineteenth century as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the twentieth century. Setting these changes in the cont…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-49544-8
- EAN: 9780521495448
- Produktnummer: 1730907
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 234 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.8 cm 518 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 518
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