Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries

by Jacqueline H. Wolf

How did breastfeeding-once accepted as the essence of motherhood and essential to the well-being of infants-come to be viewed with distaste and mistrust? Why did mothers come to choose artificial food over human milk, despite the health risks? In this history of infant feeding, Jacqueline H. Wolf focuses on turn-of-the-century Chicago as a microcosm of the urbanizing United States. She explores how economic pressures, class conflict, and changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814250777
• ISBN13: 9780814250778
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"