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Autore: |
Koerber Amy
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Titolo: |
Breast or bottle? [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and practice / / Amy Koerber
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Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of South Carolina Press, 2013 |
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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-61117-246-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910792176703321 |
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