Back to nature? Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on barriers to optimal breastfeeding

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-63

  Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf ^a   Castle, Sarah ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exclusive breastfeeding; Historical changes; Insufficient Milk Syndrome; Social relations; Supplementation; Wet nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BABY FOOD; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTATION DISORDER; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TIME;

BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION DISORDERS; LIFE STYLE; MILK, HUMAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030138459     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1996.9966127     Document Type: Review

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