Breast or Bottle? : Contemporary Controversies in Infant Feeding Policy and Practice /

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This book presents a scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations. 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, the author exposes layers of shifting arguments a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koerber, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
Infants > Nutrition.
Breastfeeding.
Bottle feeding.
Infants.
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Breast Feeding
Bottle Feeding
Infant
Nourrissons > Alimentation.
Allaitement maternel.
Allaitement artificiel.
Nourrissons.
infants.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Breastfeeding.
Infants
Bottle feeding
Breastfeeding
Infants > Nutrition
Stillen
Säuglingsernährung
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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