Feeding Infants in Four Societies: Causes and Consequences of Mothers' Choices

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Changes in breastfeeding practices are affecting the health and survival of millions of Third World Children and the fertlity of their mothers. Yet, there is little detailed information on current breastfeeding practices or the determinants of feeding choices. This study attempts to create a framework for understanding the practices of mothers in certain developing countries and hence, designing culturally appropriate information programs that will enable mothers to make better feeding choices. Based on research conducted by international study teams, it focuses on the factors that determine feeding practices in four Third World cities.

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. . . Feeding Infants in Four Societies describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary, international, and interagency team of investigators who focused attention on four cities in the developing world, Bangkok, Bogata, Nairobi, and Semarang, in an effort to delineate the major factors underlying mothers' decisions to breast- or bottle-feed their infants. . . . this multiauthored book is well written and broadly informative. It is recommended for anyone interested in infant feeding, and for all who plan to conduct similar research.-American Anthropologist
." . . Feeding Infants in Four Societies describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary, international, and interagency team of investigators who focused attention on four cities in the developing world, Bangkok, Bogata, Nairobi, and Semarang, in an effort to delineate the major factors underlying mothers' decisions to breast- or bottle-feed their infants. . . . this multiauthored book is well written and broadly informative. It is recommended for anyone interested in infant feeding, and for all who plan to conduct similar research."-American Anthropologist

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BEVERLY WINIKOFF is Senior Medical Associate, the Population Council, New York City. MARY ANN CASTLE is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, New York University. VIRGINIA HIGHT LAUKARAN is Senior Program Officer, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.