Banking on milk : : an ethnography of donor human milk relations / / Tanya Cassidy and Fiona Dykes, with Bernard Mahon.

Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on...

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Superior document:Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Routledge,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness.
Physical Description:1 online resource (147 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ethnography of exchanging human milk in the contemporary world
  • 2. Moving hospital wetnurses to bureaus and banks
  • 3. Building the science and society of human milk with banks / with Bernard P. Mahon
  • 4. "It's not rocket science": practice and policy in human milk banking
  • 5. Pumping for preemies
  • 6. Building liquid bridges
  • Endword / Tanya Cassidy.