This paper discusses the implications inherent in different methods of infant feeding in the Western world c. 1700-1900, within the context of the historiography of the last ten years. A n account of how infants were fed in the nineteenth century is interwoven with the evidence for what occurred in Ontario. This evidence is both archival and artifactual. The objects discussed and illustrated are in the collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine in Toronto. Artifactual evidence of infant feeding practices is particularly vulnerable. Objects made of glass break easily, and infancy itself lasts only a short time. At best, the objects once abandoned are hard to recognize and therefore ignored. ...
Extract from: Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of...
This book sets out to prove that nineteenth-century working class women were not always bad mothers....
Inspired by Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s complaint about the exclusion of the baby bottle from history, thi...
This thesis comprises an interdisciplinary study of infant feeding practices in the British isles be...
This paper addresses the implications of and some of the factors behind some training, restraining a...
This thesis is concerned with the artificial feeding of very young children during the second half o...
This paper will give a historical account of breastfeeding and explain the socio-cultural context in...
Historical artefacts can act as distancing objects, encouraging neutral discussion around sensitive ...
This paper uses detailed records relating to feeding and health for a large sample of infants born i...
OBJECTIVE: To retrace the history of infant nutrition with the objective of better understanding bre...
At the turn of the twentieth century, County Durham, a coal-mining region in England’s Northeast, ex...
Breast feeding is promoted as the optimum infant feeding method for numerous reasons. How do we exp...
Infant feeding is an explanatory factor of infant mortality levels in historical populations. The ba...
The purpose of this study is to examine regional variations in infant mortality and how these were r...
Anecdotal evidence indicates that high-status women in England generally did not breastfeed their ch...
Extract from: Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of...
This book sets out to prove that nineteenth-century working class women were not always bad mothers....
Inspired by Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s complaint about the exclusion of the baby bottle from history, thi...
This thesis comprises an interdisciplinary study of infant feeding practices in the British isles be...
This paper addresses the implications of and some of the factors behind some training, restraining a...
This thesis is concerned with the artificial feeding of very young children during the second half o...
This paper will give a historical account of breastfeeding and explain the socio-cultural context in...
Historical artefacts can act as distancing objects, encouraging neutral discussion around sensitive ...
This paper uses detailed records relating to feeding and health for a large sample of infants born i...
OBJECTIVE: To retrace the history of infant nutrition with the objective of better understanding bre...
At the turn of the twentieth century, County Durham, a coal-mining region in England’s Northeast, ex...
Breast feeding is promoted as the optimum infant feeding method for numerous reasons. How do we exp...
Infant feeding is an explanatory factor of infant mortality levels in historical populations. The ba...
The purpose of this study is to examine regional variations in infant mortality and how these were r...
Anecdotal evidence indicates that high-status women in England generally did not breastfeed their ch...
Extract from: Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of...
This book sets out to prove that nineteenth-century working class women were not always bad mothers....
Inspired by Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s complaint about the exclusion of the baby bottle from history, thi...