A Social History of Wet Nursing in America : From Breast to Bottle
by
Janet Golden
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
ISBN-10
052149544X
ISBN-13
9780521495448
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 23rd, 1996
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
451 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
AnthropologyHistory of medicine
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Combining women's history and the history of medicine, this book charts the history of wet nursing in America from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. It portrays changes in medical practice, social welfare, childrearing, and motherhood that caused wet nursing's decline.
A Social History of Wet Nursing in the United States: 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, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalised, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the twentieth 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.
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