Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Women and Health Series: Cultural and Social Perspectives) (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE)

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“”An outstanding contribution to the history of medicine and gender, Don’t Kill Your Baby must be on the bookshelves of historians and health professionals in addition to somebody interested in the way in which medical practice will also 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? Why did mothers come to make a choice artificial food over human milk, regardless of the health risks? In this history of infant feeding, Jacqueline H. Wolf makes a speciality of turn-of-the-century Chicago as a microcosm of the urbanizing United States. She explores how economic pressures, class conflict, and changing views of medicine, marriage, efficiency, self-keep watch over, and nature prompted increasing numbers of women and, ultimately, doctors to doubt the efficacy and propriety of breastfeeding. Examining the interactions among women, dairies, and health care providers, Wolf uncovers the origins of up to date attitudes toward and myths about breastfeeding. Jacqueline H. Wolf is assistant professor in the history of medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and adjust assistant professor, Women’s Studies Program, Ohio University.

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