Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-279) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. "It takes quite a little courage to stand out": mothers move from breast to bottle -- Ch. 2. "Slaughter of the Innocents": Infant mortality and the Urban milk supply -- Ch. 3. "They cannot transform cows' milk into woman's milk": physicians and infant feeding -- Ch. 4. "Insist upon breast feedings": Public Health Organizations and infant feeding -- Ch. 5. "Mercenary hireling" or "A great blessing"?: Wet nurses as private and institutional employees -- Ch. 6. "Give it the nearest thing to mother's milk": human milk substitutes -- Epilogue: "A matter of nursing routine": infant feeding since the 1930s -- App. A: Deaths from diarrhea under two years of age in Chicago -- App. B: Percentage of deaths under age one in Chicago by cause, 1897 to 1939 -- App. C: What Chicago mothers fed their newborns, 1911-1933.
