A01=Rima D. Apple
Author_Rima D. Apple
Category=JHM
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Product details
- ISBN 9780299114848
- Weight: 424g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 1987
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the nineteenth century infants were commonly breast-fed; yet by the middle of the twentieth century, women typically bottle-fed their babies on the advice of their doctors. Rima D. Apple analyzes the complex interactions of science, medicine, economics, and culture that underlie this dramatic shift in infant-care practices. As infant feeding became the keystone of the emerging specialty of pediatrics, the manufacture of infant food became a lucrative industry. More and more mothers reported difficulty in nursing their babies. This book clarifies the complex and contradictory interaction between women and the medical profession in America.
Rima D. Apple is professor in the School of Human Ecology and the Women's Studies Program at the University Of Wisconsin-Madison. She has also authored Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture and edited Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History and Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook.
