Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastf in the 19th and 20th Centuries

by Jacqueline Wolf

""An outstanding contribution to the history of medicine and gender, "Don't Kill Your Baby" should be on the bookshelves of historians and health professionals as well as anyone interested in the way in which medical practice can be shaped by external forces." -Margaret Marsh, Rutgers University 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?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814208770
• ISBN13: 9780814208779
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"