Artificial Infant Feeding

Artificial infant feeding.

It can be accepted as axiomatic at the present time that the basic food substance for the artificial feeding of healthy infants is cow’s milk. In the first place, therefore, attention must be directed towards a comparison between human breast milk and cow’s milk. Ideally, the substitute food should approximate to nature’s food as closely and as exactly as possible. Towards the end of the last c...

The Practice of Artificial Infant Feeding

Artificial Infant Feeding: Women’s Loss, Men’s Gain

Synopsis – Artificial infant feeding, the first reproductive technology, has eliminated the need for women’s breasts and lactation function in successful reproduction. This paper argues that men have been the primary beneficiaries of this technology. Artificial infant feeding provides wealth, power, and status to the men who produce and control it. Women in nonindustrialized nations are especia...

Infant Feeding

This new volume on Infant Feeding is based on a course of lectures given to the students of Rush Medical College, and it is partly due to a demand on their part that the treatise is written. In its preparation the writer has endeavoured to bring our knowledge of the scientific processes that underlie infant feeding up to the present, and to apply these principles in such a way that they can be ...

Infant Feeding