Breastfeeding - Global Practices, Challenges, Maternal & Infant Health Outcomes (Hardcover)

This book provides a social and cultural framework for understanding strategies for the critical feeding and nutrition of the world's most vulnerable citizens. Ensuring that infants have access to breastmilk is one of the greatest global healthcare challenges of the twenty-first century, one that cannot be understood in exclusively biomedical terms, but demands an awareness of complex lived experiences. The familiar slogan breast is best' is skilfully and impressively annotated by this volume with an understanding of the practical and varied experiences of working women and the degree of support (or opposition) that larger communities may provide. How and when infants can be fed is not simply a matter of individual maternal choice, but has large structural implications. The international and interdisciplinary essays in this book amply illustrate the need to transcend a narrow and unfair emphasis on the success' or failure' of particular nursing mothers and seek greater societal understanding in order to effect positive societal change. Furthermore, this volume not only has significant public policy implications, but is of great value in the university classroom, illustrating how many of our most basic assumptions about healthcare and maternity need to be rethought in light of a more complex understanding of how human milk ties communities as well as individuals together.

General

Imprint:	nova science publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2013
Editors:	Tanya M Cassidy
Dimensions:	260 x 180 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-62808-363-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Paediatric medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	1-62808-363-8
Barcode:	9781628083637

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