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Virginia Thorley, Auteur |This discussion paper acknowledges the importance of women's milk and the imperative of valuing it in a world where economic policies equate value with monetary value. 'Value' is so much more than that, and breastfeeding is so much more than the[...]Article : texte imprimé
The distribution of free samples or supplies of artificial infant milk (AIM) or related promotional gifts to new mothers by hospital staff in the second half of the 20th century has been identified as an effective, but unethical, marketing strat[...]Article : texte imprimé
Wet-nurses themselves rarely left written accounts. In this article, I have reconstructed their experiences and work situations breastfeeding other women’s infants in colonial Australia through examining available sources concerning their employ[...]Article : texte imprimé
Rukhsana Haider, Auteur ; Virginia Thorley, Auteur ; Seema Mihrshahi, Auteur |Sub-optimal feeding practices contribute towards malnutrition in young infants and children. Building upon successfully improving breastfeeding practices through peer counselling in Bangladesh, starting from 1995, this project tested if compleme[...]Article : texte imprimé
Breastfeeding is important for providing optimal infant nutrition and protection from many infectious and non-infectious conditions (Allen, Perrin, and Fogleman, 2013; Eidelman and Schanler, 2012). It is an ancient, but simple, public health mea[...]Article : texte imprimé
Virginia Thorley, Auteur ; Tomasz Sioda, Auteur |This article will describe the content of the key criteria for the selection of wet nurses that persisted across time and the authors who transmitted this advice. Where relevant, it will include variations, such as additional recommendations or [...]Article : texte imprimé
Virginia Thorley, Auteur |The practice of feeding expressed breastmilk by bottle, in place of the breast, has become common in affluent countries and is perceived as a mainstream mode of infant feeding (Mclnnes, Arbuckle, and Hoddinott, 2015; Ryan, Team, and Alexander, 2[...]
