Add to ORKGEarly modern mothers did not like to breastfeed. Many young mothers did not produce enough, suffered from sore nipples, or they wanted to be liberated from this time-consuming practice and fulfil their social and sexual duties. Yet on the basis of medical and chemical studies, physicians were passionately convinced of the benefits of milk and maternal breastfeeding. This paper argues that 18th-century physicians developed new strategies to remedy this widespread antipathy against mother’s milk. Besides applying rhetoric in poems and popular how to-books, doctors promoted maternal breastfeeding by developing new galactagogues (drugs that increased lactation) and innovative breast pumps
This thesis examines perceptions of milk in the seventeenth century in two unique ways. Firstly, it ...
Today we take the prevalence of bottlefeeding for granted For so many American women, it is just the...
This presentation is part of the “Female Complaints”: Medicine, Markets and Women\u27s Health track....
Early modern mothers did not like to breastfeed. Many young mothers did not produce enough, suffered...
Breast milk commonly represents the early and intimate mother-infant relationship. Yet the practice ...
Breast milk commonly represents the early and intimate mother-infant relationship. Yet the practice ...
Drawing on medieval medical encyclopaedias, early modern and Victorian advice books, as well as twen...
In the 17th century England a discussion on breastfeeding began. All sources emphasized the sacredne...
In the 17th century England a discussion on breastfeeding began. All sources emphasized the sacredn...
This thesis comprises an interdisciplinary study of infant feeding practices in the British isles be...
Milk was a very significant food product in the Mediterranean. The present study is not devoted to m...
The concept of sexual pleasure while breastfeeding, still faintly scandalous in the twenty-first cen...
Milk was a very significant food product in the Mediterranean. The present study is not devoted to m...
This paper explores the commodification of women and biological processes, the confusion of scientif...
Advances in medicine and the evolution of health-related behaviors through time and across cultures ...
This thesis examines perceptions of milk in the seventeenth century in two unique ways. Firstly, it ...
Today we take the prevalence of bottlefeeding for granted For so many American women, it is just the...
This presentation is part of the “Female Complaints”: Medicine, Markets and Women\u27s Health track....
Early modern mothers did not like to breastfeed. Many young mothers did not produce enough, suffered...
Breast milk commonly represents the early and intimate mother-infant relationship. Yet the practice ...
Breast milk commonly represents the early and intimate mother-infant relationship. Yet the practice ...
Drawing on medieval medical encyclopaedias, early modern and Victorian advice books, as well as twen...
In the 17th century England a discussion on breastfeeding began. All sources emphasized the sacredne...
In the 17th century England a discussion on breastfeeding began. All sources emphasized the sacredn...
This thesis comprises an interdisciplinary study of infant feeding practices in the British isles be...
Milk was a very significant food product in the Mediterranean. The present study is not devoted to m...
The concept of sexual pleasure while breastfeeding, still faintly scandalous in the twenty-first cen...
Milk was a very significant food product in the Mediterranean. The present study is not devoted to m...
This paper explores the commodification of women and biological processes, the confusion of scientif...
Advances in medicine and the evolution of health-related behaviors through time and across cultures ...
This thesis examines perceptions of milk in the seventeenth century in two unique ways. Firstly, it ...
Today we take the prevalence of bottlefeeding for granted For so many American women, it is just the...
This presentation is part of the “Female Complaints”: Medicine, Markets and Women\u27s Health track....