1st Edition

Breastfeeding, Child Health & Child Spacing Cross-Cultural Perspectives

232 Pages

by Routledge

Description

Breastfeeding has been recognized as a major factor not only in the nutrition of the young child, but also in the health of the mother, patterns of fertility within societies and as a characteristic of a particular culture. First published in 1985, Breastfeeding, Child Health & Child Spacing investigates the relationships between breastfeeding, child health and child spacing from an... Read more

Foreword
Derrick Jelliffe

Breastfeeding, child health and child spacing: an overview
V. Hull and M. Simpson

1. Ethnopediatrics and fertility among the Amele of Lowland Papua New Guinea
Carol L. Jenkins and Peter F. Heywood

2. Infant feeding practices in rural Kenya
Sheila Cosminsky

3. Breastfeeding in two Mexican villages: social and demographic perspectives
Ann V. Millard and Margaret A. Graham

4. Breastfeeding, birth spacing, and social change in rural Java
Valerie Hull

5. Breastfeeding, infant growth and return to fertility in an Iranian city
Mayling Simpson

6. The Cultural context of breastfeeding in rural Thailand
Penny Van Esterik

7. To nurse and to nurture: breastfeeding in Australian society
Lenore Manderson

8. Breastfeeding and the return of menstruation in urban Canadia mothers practising “natural mothering”
Melissa Knauer