Ballad of Reading Gaol [[electronic resource] /] / Oscar Wilde

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450052603321
• Autore: Wilde Oscar <1854-1900.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Electric Book Co., c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (30 p.)
• Soggetti: Prisoners; Prisons; English literature - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Breast or bottle? [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and practice / / Amy Koerber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792176703321
• Autore: Koerber Amy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, : University of South Carolina Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-61117-246-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Collana: Studies in rhetoric/communication
• Disciplina: 649/.33
• Soggetti: Infants - Nutrition; Breastfeeding
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Infant feeding and rhetoric : an overview -- From "wives' tales and folklore" to scientific fact : rhetorics of breastfeeding and immunity in the mid-twentieth century -- Articulating knowledge and practice : the rhetoric of infant-feeding policy -- Viral rhetoric : breast and bottle in ; current promotional discourse -- Rhetorical agency and resistance in the context of infant feeding -- Feminism, rhetoric, and breastfeeding : some concluding remarks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Breast or Bottle is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical controversies and a critical examination of the ways in which medical beliefs are communicated to the public, Amy Koerber exposes layers of shifting arguments and meaning that inform contemporary infant-feeding advocacy and policy.Whereas the phrase ""breast or bottle"" might once have implied a choice between two relative equals, human milk is now believed to possess unique health-promoting qualities. Although