The Politics of Breastfeeding (3rd edition)

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This long awaited 3rd edition of Gabrielle Palmer’s book, The Politics of Breastfeeding is now available. As readers of previous editions will know, this book describes how infant formula companies/commercial interests have successfully altered society’s perceptions of breastfeeding: over many years, they have succeeded in making us all – the general public, mothers and even the medical world - believe that giving a baby breast-milk should be avoided. Instead, bottle-feeding has been presented as the acceptable norm. The author gives us an extremely detailed and well-argued case of why both babies’ and their mothers’ health can be harmed by the use of alternatives to breast-milk, and why breast-milk (even if infected by the HIV virus) is essential to the health and wellbeing of every developing infant.

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Product Code: B/PBF
Author(s): Gabrielle Palmer
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pinter and Martin
ISBN: 9781905177165
Year: 2009
Pages: 424