Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Public discourse and private relations: Wet nursing in colonial America
- 2 The new motherhood and the new view of wet nurses, 1780–1865
- 3 Finding “just the right kind of woman”: The urban wet nurse marketplace, 1830–1900
- 4 “Victims of distressing circumstances”: The wet nurse labor force and the offspring of wet nurses, 1860–1910
- 5 Medical oversight and medical dilemmas: The physician and the wet nurse, 1870–1910
- 6 “Obliged to have wet nurses”: Relations in the private household, 1870–1925
- 7 “Therapeutic merchandise”: Human milk in the twentieth century
- Epilogue: From commodity to gift
- Index
- Cambridge History of Medicine
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Public discourse and private relations: Wet nursing in colonial America
- 2 The new motherhood and the new view of wet nurses, 1780–1865
- 3 Finding “just the right kind of woman”: The urban wet nurse marketplace, 1830–1900
- 4 “Victims of distressing circumstances”: The wet nurse labor force and the offspring of wet nurses, 1860–1910
- 5 Medical oversight and medical dilemmas: The physician and the wet nurse, 1870–1910
- 6 “Obliged to have wet nurses”: Relations in the private household, 1870–1925
- 7 “Therapeutic merchandise”: Human milk in the twentieth century
- Epilogue: From commodity to gift
- Index
- Cambridge History of Medicine
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- A Social History of Wet Nursing in AmericaFrom Breast to Bottle, pp. 207 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996