Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950 Volume 7

by Rima D. Apple

Book Overview

In the nineteenth century, infants were commonly breast-fed; by the middle of the twentieth century, women typically bottle-fed their babies on the advice of their doctors. In this book, Rima D. Apple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299114848
• ISBN13: 9780299114848
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mothers and Medicine

A fascinating history describing how doctors and businessmen colluded to undermine breastfeeding in the Western world. Would be of interest to midwives, nurses and sociologists. Written by an academic and fully referenced but not a difficult read. In my copy some of the illustrations were so poorly reproduced that the captions had disappeared and the pictures were indistinct.