Infant feeding practices a cross-cultural perspective - Liamputtong, Pranee 1955- (New York, New York Springer New York, 2013)
Infant feeding beliefs and practices across cultures: An introduction -- Part I: Social Construction of Infant Feeding & Policy Framework -- Shifting identities: Social and cultural factors that shape decision making around sustaining breastfeeding -- Managing the lactating body: The breast-feeding project at the age of anxiety -- Infant feeding as a social problem: A study of developments in Great Britain -- The imperative to breastfeed: A socio-cultural perspective -- Socio-cultural dynamics and infant feeding practices in northern Ghana: Implications for health policy in Ghana -- Part II: Women, Work and Infant Feeding Practices -- Measuring the maternal: Managing the work of breastfeeding and employment -- Good mother, infant feeding and social change in northern Thailand -- Breastfeeding practice among employed Thai women: A cultural perspective -- Part III: Infant Feeding Practices and HIV/AIDS -- Infant feeding in the era of HIV: Challenges and opportunities -- HIV/AIDS transmission through breastmilk in sub-Saharan Africa: The past, the present and the future -- From traditional breastfeeding practices to optimal breastfeeding practices, the cases of the Gambia and Malawi -- Part IV: Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices Within Socio-Cultural Context -- Fluid boundaries: Multiple meanings of the illness ?Moto? in northern Malawi -- Perceptions of Maori women and their whanau (family) towards barriers in achieving best outcomes in infant breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding among Indigenous mothers in Australia -- Infant feeding beliefs and practices across cultures: Focusing on Turkey as a case in point -- Early initiation of breastfeeding and its beneficial effects in Japan -- Socio-cultural determinants of infant?s feeding patterns within six months postpartum in rural Vietnam -- Infant feeding practices following migration: initial attitudes and practices of women born in Turkey and Vietnam following migration to Australia compared with women born in Australia -- Attitudes to breastfeeding: Perspectives from mothers, fathers and society.
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Keywords: Infants -- Nutrition