Breastfeeding Has Been the Best Public Health Policy Throughout History Joan Y. Meek, The Conversation Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine Breastfeeding has long been the gold standard for infant nutrition. The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,...
It’s Time to Take Nature to Task Jessica Martucci Arts & Culture, Gender Studies, Science & Medicine In March of this year, one of my respected colleagues and I published a short essay in Pediatrics in which we critiqued the use of “nature” in public health campaigns, specifically regarding breastfeeding...
Go Breast or Go Home: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding’s Return Jessica Martucci Arts & Culture, Gender Studies How did we come to be in this moment, when breastfeeding is both increasingly mandatory and simultaneously impossible, burdensome and laborious?
