商品簡介
Tomori, a medical anthropologist and health services researcher affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, employs an anthropological perspective to explore how American parents navigate conflicting medical guidelines about nighttime breastfeeding and sleep. The author's longitudinal, ethnographic study of middle-class breastfeeding families in a Midwestern city provide insight into cultural expectations for parents and babies and shed light on concepts of health and medical authority, as well as sociocultural and economic inequality. Voices of real mothers interviewed for the study reveal how they deal with negative messages about nighttime breastfeeding from doctors, healthcare workers, family, friends, and other mothers. The book also includes a table of demographic characteristics of couples in the study, plus biographical sketches of some participants. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Cecilia Tomori is a medical anthropologist who has worked as a health services researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and is currently a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
