Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
