Medicalization and women's knowledge: The construction of understandings of infant feeding experiences in post-WW II New Zealand

Health Care for Woman International

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 483-500

  Ryan, Kathleen M ^a   Grace, Victoria M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BABY FOOD; BEHAVIOR; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD CARE; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; KNOWLEDGE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); WOMEN;

EID: 0035404465     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/073993301317094308     Document Type: Article

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