Mothers and Medicine: Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950 (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science & Medicine) (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine) - Softcover

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9780299114848: Mothers and Medicine: Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950 (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science & Medicine) (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine)

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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.

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"Apple's "Mothers and Medicine" is a fascinating sociohistorical documentation of infant feeding practices, of the mother's role in the creation of information and hospital support systems, and the development of pediatrics as a medical specialty."--"Choice Magazine"

"Apple's book is an important contribution to the social history of American medicine. It will be invaluable, however, not only to historians of medicine, but to others interested in the historical relationships between physicians, infants, and their parents."--Susan E. Lederer, "The History of Medicine"

"The strength of Apple's book is her ability to indicate how the mutual interests of mothers, doctors, and manufacturers led to the transformation of infant feeding. . . . Historians of science will be impressed with the way she probes the connections between the medical profession and the manufacturers and with her ability to demonstrate how medical theories were translated into medical practice."--Janet Golden, "Isis"

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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.

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PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
Publication date1988
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ISBN 13 9780299114848
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Apple, Rima D.

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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. 1. In the nineteenth century infants were commonly breastfed by the middle of the twentieth century women typically bottlefed their babies on the advice of their doctors In this book Rima D Apple discloses and analyzes the complex interactions of science medicine economics and culture that underlie this dramatic shift in infantcare practices and womens livesAs infant feeding became the keystone of the emerging specialty of pediatrics in the twentieth century the manufacture of infant food became a lucrative industry More and more mothers reported difficulty in nursing their babies While physicians were establishing themselves and the scientific experts and the infantfood industry was hawking the scientific bases of their products women embraced scientific motherhood believing that science could shape child care practices The commercialization and medicalization of infant care established an environment that made bottle feeding not only less feared by many mothers but indeed natural and necessary Focusing on the history of infant feeding this book clarifies the major elements involved in the complex and sometimes contradictory interaction between women and the medical profession revealing much about the changing roles of mothers and physicians in American societyThe strength of Apples book is her ability to indicate how the mutual interests of mothers doctors and manufacturers led to the transformation of infant feeding Historians of science will be impressed with the way she probes the connections between the medical profession and the manufacturers and with her ability to demonstrate how medical theories were translated into medical practiceJanet Golden Isis. Seller Inventory # DADAX0299114848

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