Social History of Wet Nursing in America

Social History of Wet Nursing in America

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Golden Janet
Cambridge University Press
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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.
EAN 9780521495448
ISBN 052149544X
Binding Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date February 23, 1996
Pages 234
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 159 x 17
Country United Kingdom
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Golden Janet
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises
Series Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine