“Let Us Have More Mother-Fed Babies”: Early Twentieth-Century Breastfeeding Campaigns in Chicago and Minneapolis

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-105

  Wolf, Jacqueline H ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

BREAST FEEDING; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MINNESOTA; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0033147323     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089033449901500206     Document Type: Article

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