Overview
Brings together current research on infant feeding beliefs and practices around the world
Uniquely written from a cross-cultural perspective
Makes recommendations for the provision of health and social services to mothers and families
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Infant Feeding Practices
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Socio-cultural Perspective of Infant Feeding and Policy Framework
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Motherhood, Work, and Infant Feeding Practices
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Infant Feeding Practices and HIV/AIDS
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Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices Within Socio-cultural Context
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From the reviews:
“This cross-cultural perspective of infant feeding practices investigates how mothers in a variety of cultures and sub-cultures make infant feeding decisions. … The book’s strength is its acknowledgement and coverage of the multiple interlocking factors that determine women’s infant-feeding decisions, including the effects of class, geographical region and education, which affect the cultural background. … This book will encourage reflection for clinicians, health policy-makers, sociologists, cultural historians, and mothers themselves.” (Virginia Thorley, International Lactation consultant Association, November, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Pranee Liamputtong is a Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She has previously published a book with Springer: Doing Cross-Cultural Research: Ethical and Methodological Perspectives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infant Feeding Practices
Book Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Editors: Pranee Liamputtong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6873-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6872-2Published: 11 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0149-4Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6873-9Published: 12 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 372
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Public Health, Anthropology