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Is Breast Best?: Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-first Century)
Is Breast Best Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood - Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Joan Wolf
Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercial formula to at ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780814794814
ISBN-10: 0814794815
Publication Date: 1/3/2011
Pages: 256
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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