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Breast or bottle? : contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and practice /

Koerber, Amy

Breast or bottle? : contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and practice / Amy Koerber. - xiii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Studies in rhetoric/communication .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index.

Infant feeding and rhetoric : an overview -- From "wives' tales and folklore" to scientific fact : rhetorics of breastfeeding and immunity in the mid-twentieth century -- Articulating knowledge and practice : the rhetoric of infant-feeding policy -- Viral rhetoric : breast and bottle in current promotional discourse -- Rhetorical agency and resistance in the context of infant feeding -- Feminism, rhetoric, and breastfeeding : some concluding remarks.

9781611172416 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1611172411 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2013007824


Infants--Nutrition.
Breastfeeding.
Bottle feeding.

RJ216 / .K593 2013

649/.33

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