A Social History of Wet Nursing in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social History of Wet Nursing in America write by Janet Golden. This book was released on 2001. A Social History of Wet Nursing in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the colonial period through to the 20th century, this text examines the intersection of medical science, social theory and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians and families. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the 20th century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.
Wet Nursing
Wet Nursing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wet Nursing write by Valerie A. Fildes. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Wet Nursing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Place Like Home write by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson. This book was released on 2003-03-07. No Place Like Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes information on Mary Beard, black nurses, blacks, Boston (Massachusetts), Charleston (South Carolina), homecare, Ladies Benevolent Society, race, nursing salaries, tuberculosis, visiting nurse associations, etc.
Breasts, Bottles and Babies
Breasts, Bottles and Babies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breasts, Bottles and Babies write by Valerie Fildes. This book was released on 1989-03-01. Breasts, Bottles and Babies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Don't Kill Your Baby
Don't Kill Your Baby - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Don't Kill Your Baby write by Jacqueline H. Wolf. This book was released on 2001. Don't Kill Your Baby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ""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? Why did mothers come to choose artificial food over human milk, despite the health risks? In this history of infant feeding, Jacqueline H. Wolf focuses on 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-control, and nature prompted increasing numbers of women and, eventually, doctors to doubt the efficacy and propriety of breastfeeding. Examining the interactions among women, dairies, and health care providers, Wolf uncovers the origins of contemporary 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.
