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Mothers and Medicine A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890—1950 Rima D. Apple Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine In the nineteenth century infants were commonly breast-fed; yet by the middle of the twentieth century, women typically bottle-fed their babies on the advice of their doctors. Rima D. Apple analyzes the complex interactions of science, medicine, economics, and culture that underlie this dramatic shift in infant-care practices. As infant feeding became the keystone of the emerging specialty of pediatrics, the manufacture of infant food became a lucrative industry. More and more mothers reported difficulty in nursing their babies. This book clarifies the complex and contradictory interaction between women and the medical profession in America. "The strength of Apple's book is her ability to indicate how the mutual interests of mothers, doctors, and manufacturers led to the transformation of infant feeding. . . . Historians of science will be impressed with the way she probes the connections between the medical profession and the manufacturers and with her ability to demonstrate how medical theories were translated into medical practice."—Janet Golden, Isis Rima D. Apple is professor in the School of Human Ecology and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has also authored Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture and edited Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History and Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

Back in Print January 2005  LC: 87-040137 RJ 280 pp. 6 x 9 34 illus. ISBN 0-299-11484-8 Paper $21.95 s SHOPPING CART OPERATIONS For MasterCard/Visa holders, accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart and submit your order electronically. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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