Supporting breastfeeding(?): Nursing mothers’ resistance to and accommodation of medical and social discourses

Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-84

  Cripe, Emily T ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203891223     Document Type: Chapter

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