विषयसूची
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.