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Is Breast Best? Author: Joan B. Wolf

ISBN: 9780814794814 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 258 Published: 21 December 2010 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 16.2 x 2.3 Description:

Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise ofSimilac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use offormula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercialformula to at least supplement a breastfeeding routine. So how is it that most of those bottle-fed babies grew up to believe that breast, and only breast, is best?

In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication, Wolf writes, the conviction that breastfeeding provides babies unique health benefits and that formula feeding is a risky substitute is unsubstantiated by the evidence. In accessible prose, Wolf argues that a public obsession with health and what she calls "total motherhood" has made breastfeeding a cause celebre, and that public discussions of breastfeeding say more about infatuation with personal responsibility and perfect mothering in America than i...

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