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The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated
infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of
individualism have generated expectations that mothers are
individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a
bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis
explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk
sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for
contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging
widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a
compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new
thinking about a contentious practice.
Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public
inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of
Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and
psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric
care in Mexico. While international reports condemning conditions
in Mexican psychiatric institutions abound, Psychiatric Encounters
considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care
encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live
and act like human beings under inhumane conditions. Beatriz Mireya
Reyes-Foster closely examines the impact of the Mexican state's
neoliberal health reforms on how patients access care and doctors
perform their duties. Engaging with madness, modernity, and
identity, Psychiatric Encounters considers the enduring role of
colonialism in the context of Mexico's troubled contemporary mental
health care institutions.
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