Breast or Bottle?: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice

An interdisciplinary examination of the changing rhetoric of infant-feeding discourse

Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical controversies and a critical examination of the ways in which medical beliefs are communicated to the public, Amy Koerber exposes layers of shifting arguments and meaning that inform contemporary infant-feeding advocacy an...