Is Breast Best? : Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood
Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-fe...
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2011
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