The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business
As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nationand thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time. Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer describes how big business uses subtle techniques to pressure parents to use alternatives to breastmilk....
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As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer describes how big business uses subtle techniques to pressure parents to use alternatives to breastmilk. The infant feeding product companies' thirst for profit systematically undermines mothers' confidence in their ability to breastfeed their babies.An essential and inspirational eye-opener, The Politics of Breastfeeding challenges our complacency about how we feed our children and radically reappraises a subject which concerns not only mothers, but everyone: man or woman, parent or childless, old or young.
preface to the third edition vii1 why breastfeeding is political 12 the right to call ourselves mammals: the importance of biology 113 how breastfeeding works - and how it was damaged 194 beauty, books and breasts 335 a taste of infant feeding 466 it's not just the milk that counts 807 your generous donations could do more harm than good 918 hiv and breastfeeding 989 life, death and birth 11310 population, fertility and sex 12711 from the stone age to steam engines: a gallop through history 15412 other women's babies: wet nursing 18213 the industrial revolution in britain: the era of progress? 19114 markets are not created by god 21215 the lure of the global market 23816 what is the code? 26017 power struggles 27918 dying for the code 28919 documents and declarations 30920 work, economics and the value of mothering 31921 ecology, waste and greed 345epilogue 361acknowledgments 364abbreviations and explanation of terms 365appendix 1 the global strategy summary 367appendix 2 the innocenti declaration 2005 368appendix 3 the ten steps 372appendix 4 section from the convention on the rights of the child 373appendix 5 millennium development goals 374appendix 6 mishaps, recalls and contaminants 375appendix 7 infant feeding definitions 376appendix 8 cedaw 377useful addresses 378references and notes 382index 416
