Is breast best?
Wolf, Joan B.
Is breast best? taking on the breastfeeding experts and the new high stakes of motherhood / [electronic resource] : Joan B. Wolf. - New York : New York University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xvii, 241 p. ) - Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century . - Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.) UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-230) and index.
Preface : why breastfeeding? -- Monitoring mothers : a recent history of following the doctor's orders -- The science : does breastfeeding make smarter, happier, and healthier babies? -- Minding your own (risky) business : health and personal responsibility -- From the womb to the breast : total motherhood and risk-free children -- Scaring mothers : the government campaign for breastfeeding -- Conclusion : whither breastfeeding?
9780814795255 0814795250
Public Opinion.
Politics.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
Breast Feeding.
Breastfeeding--Social aspects.
Breastfeeding--Government policy--United States.
Breastfeeding.
Electronic books.
RJ216 / .W7193 2011
649/.33
Is breast best? taking on the breastfeeding experts and the new high stakes of motherhood / [electronic resource] : Joan B. Wolf. - New York : New York University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xvii, 241 p. ) - Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century . - Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.) UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-230) and index.
Preface : why breastfeeding? -- Monitoring mothers : a recent history of following the doctor's orders -- The science : does breastfeeding make smarter, happier, and healthier babies? -- Minding your own (risky) business : health and personal responsibility -- From the womb to the breast : total motherhood and risk-free children -- Scaring mothers : the government campaign for breastfeeding -- Conclusion : whither breastfeeding?
9780814795255 0814795250
Public Opinion.
Politics.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
Breast Feeding.
Breastfeeding--Social aspects.
Breastfeeding--Government policy--United States.
Breastfeeding.
Electronic books.
RJ216 / .W7193 2011
649/.33