Lactation - Physiology, Nutrition, and Breast-Feeding (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)

This book had its genesIs In the frustrations of the editors in locating authoritative, up-to-date material for an interdisciplinary graduate course in mammary gland biology, lactation, and breast-feeding. As we turned to the original literature several reasons for the dearth of usable material became clear: (1) In the areas of mammary gland biology and physiology, particularly as they relate to the human, reviews simply have not kept up with current research, which has in the last two decades provided tremendous insight into the mechanisms of milk secretion and its control. (2) The lack of interest in human milk as infant food inhibited researchers until very recently from investigating human lactation. (3) Much of the relevant clinical information remains anecdotal with little scientific basis. In this book we have tried to present the fundamentals of mammary gland physiology at the organismic and cellular levels in a form readily understood by physicians, scientists, and other professionals. This basic information is accompanied by authoritative reviews of the nutritional and immunological properties of human milk and by clinically relevant chapters designed to help health care professionals deal with the medical problems of the breast-feeding mother and her infant. We have strived in these chapters for up-to-date, authoritative, but readable accounts. In so far as possible we have avoided areas where much of our understanding rests on speculation. In the clinical domain this was not always possible because of a lack of solid, scientific information about breast-feeding.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	1983
Editors:	Margaret Neville
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	466
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-3690-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
LSN:	1-4613-3690-2
Barcode:	9781461336907

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