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



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Autore: Koerber Amy Visualizza persona
Titolo: Breast or bottle? : contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and practice / / Amy Koerber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Columbia, : University of South Carolina Press, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
Disciplina: 649/.33
Soggetto topico: Infants - Nutrition
Breastfeeding
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
Titolo autorizzato: Breast or bottle  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61117-246-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814902603321
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Serie: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication