Only Mothers Know: Patterns of Infant Feeding in Traditional Cultures

by Dana Raphael, Flora Davis, Unknown

Only Mothers Know is a very good, indeed a consummate, summary of research, discussion, and controversy, and it is also a very levelheaded as well as compassionate appeal to common sense, to valid cultural experience, and to the realism of Third World modernization. Raphael's project has come a long way from the passionate concern of the early days of the rediscovery of breastfeeding and of female wisdom. Such concern still guides her, of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031324541X
• ISBN13: 9780313245411
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"