1st Edition
Banking on Milk An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations
Introduction
1. Ethnography of Exchanging Human Milk In The Contemporary World
2. Moving Hospital Wetnurses To Bureaus and Banks
3. Building the Science and Society Of Human Milk With Banks with Bernard P. Mahon
4. "It’s Not Rocket Science": Practice and Policy in Human Milk Banking
5. Pumping for Preemies
6. Building Liquid Bridges
Endword by Tanya Cassidy
Biography
Tanya Maria Cassidy is a Fulbright-HRB (Irish Health Research Board) Health Impact Scholar, an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Award (MSCA) fellow and an Irish Health Research Board Cochrane Fellow. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) where she held her MSCA.
Fiona Clare Dykes is Professor of Maternal and Infant Health and leads the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN), University of Central Lancashire. She is an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and holds Visiting Professorships at Högskolan, Dalarna, Sweden and Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Bernard Mahon is Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (Maynooth University). Currently, he is collaborating with a European consortium examining immunological crosstalk between mother and neonate, and scientific aspects of human milk exchange. He is a former chairperson of the Maynooth University Research Ethics Review Board.
