Social Experiences of Breastfeeding: Building Bridges between Research, Policy and Practice
Sally Dowling, David Pontin, and Kate Boyer
Abstract
This book brings together international academics, policy makers, and practitioners to build bridges between the real world and scholarship on breastfeeding. It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level, in order to help women breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer? The book includes discussion about the social and cultural contexts of breastfeeding and looks at how policy and practice can apply this to women's experiences. This will be essential reading for academics, policy makers and practit ... More
This book brings together international academics, policy makers, and practitioners to build bridges between the real world and scholarship on breastfeeding. It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level, in order to help women breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer? The book includes discussion about the social and cultural contexts of breastfeeding and looks at how policy and practice can apply this to women's experiences. This will be essential reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners in public health, midwifery, child health, sociology, women's studies, psychology, human geography, and anthropology, who want to make a real change for mothers.
Keywords:
breastfeeding,
midwifery,
child health,
mothers,
infants
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447338499 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447338499.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Sally Dowling, editor
University of the West of England
David Pontin, editor
University of South Wales
Kate Boyer, editor
Cardiff University
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