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Banking on Milk - An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations (Hardcover)
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Banking on Milk - An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday
life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and
beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people
decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human
milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices? Chapters
record the practical everyday reality of work in a milk bank by
drawing on extensive ethnographic observations and sensitive
interview data from donors, mothers of recipients and the staff of
four different milk banks from across the UK, and visits to milk
banks across Europe and North America. It discusses the ongoing
pressures to do with supply, demand and distribution. An
empirically informed "ethnography of the contemporary", where both
biosociality and biopower abound, this book includes an exploration
of how milk banks evolved from registering wet nurses with
hospitals, showing how a regulatory culture of medical authority
began to quantify and organize human milk as a commodity. This book
is a valuable read for all those with an interest in breastfeeding
or organ and tissue donation from a range of fields, including
midwifery, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and
public health.
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