TY - JOUR
T1 - Madres, leche y biberones
T2 - Alimentación contra la mortalidad infantil. Santiago de Chile (1890-1920)
AU - Moya, Maricela González
AU - Figueroa, Carla Flores
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - This paper analyses the breastfeeding programs developed to stop infant mortality at the beginning of the 20th century in Chile, within the cultural history of feeding. Based on a variety of medical sources, it is concluded that women were encouraged to breastfeed, but the use of bottles was accepted, provided that the instructions of scientific parenting were followed. Thus, the baby bottle became a strategic and symbolic object for nurturing infants, transmitting hygienic precepts, and watching over low-income mothers, who were considered the health foundations of their families and of the future of the nation.
AB - This paper analyses the breastfeeding programs developed to stop infant mortality at the beginning of the 20th century in Chile, within the cultural history of feeding. Based on a variety of medical sources, it is concluded that women were encouraged to breastfeed, but the use of bottles was accepted, provided that the instructions of scientific parenting were followed. Thus, the baby bottle became a strategic and symbolic object for nurturing infants, transmitting hygienic precepts, and watching over low-income mothers, who were considered the health foundations of their families and of the future of the nation.
KW - Baby bottles
KW - Feeding
KW - Gender
KW - Milk
KW - Motherhood
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105006664384&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1590/S2178-149420240315
DO - 10.1590/S2178-149420240315
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105006664384
SN - 2178-1494
VL - 37
JO - Estudos Historicos
JF - Estudos Historicos
IS - 83
M1 - e20240315
ER -
