Maintaining the Flow: Medical Challenges to Breastfeeding and “Risky” Bodies in Mexico

López, Jenna Murray de

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“…In these regimes, breastfeeding and lactation practices that do not adhere to narrow medicalized approaches are often stigmatized (López 2019(López , 2021Tomori et al 2016;Wilson 2018). Minoritized and marginalized groups are targeted by state surveillance.…”

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“…Only in the context of the 2022 US formula shortages has language around peerto-peer milk sharing changed ). López's (2019López's ( , 2021 ethnographic research in Mexico highlights that the biomedical model hinges on assumptions that mothers inherently pose a danger to their infants. Mothers and their milk are blamed for infant ailments, and they are told to replace breastfeeding with CMF to solve the perceived problem.…”

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Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology

Quinn,

Palmquist,

Tomori

2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This review examines anthropological contributions over the past decade into the biocultural processes and practices of lactation via the analytical pillars of colonialism, racial capitalism, and medicalization. The nexus of these three processes has been foundational to the profound disruption and decline of breastfeeding in the mid-twentieth century and is still impacting ongoing efforts to restore and facilitate breastfeeding. Anthropologists have helped expose and challenge biocapitalist, medicalized conceptualizations of lactation that undermine breastfeeding often even when they claim to support it. Moreover, they have highlighted how ethnocentric cultural ideologies shape biomedical categories of “normal” infant feeding and lactation and have demonstrated the variability of these processes and practices. While these efforts have yielded important interventions into anthropology and a range of other disciplines, significant work remains to integrate efforts across the subfields and to challenge racist, oppressive systems that continue to shape both the study and the practice of lactation. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 52 is October 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Medicalized Moralitymentioning

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Section: Medicalized Moralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology

Quinn,

Palmquist,

Tomori

2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…Breastfeeding has long been at the center of infant feeding controversies that are deeply rooted in ideologies about mothers being intrinsically, biologically, a danger to their infants (Hausman, 2011;López, 2019;Palmquist, 2017;Tomori, 2015;Tomori, Palmquist, & Dowling, 2016). As illustrated above, much of human milk science remains firmly grounded in these ideologies and, wittingly or not, reproduces them.…”

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The COVID‐19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

Palmquist

Asiodu

Quinn

2020

American J Hum Biol

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The Content and Sources of Breastfeeding Knowledge for New Mothers in the Netherlands

Oosterhoff¹,

Sellen²,

Haisma³

2022

TONURSJ

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Background: In the context of decreasing breastfeeding rates and unsuccessful breastfeeding promotion campaigns, a qualitative research project in the Northern part of the Netherlands was initiated. Objectives: As part of the overall project, the aim of this study was to explore the content and sources of breastfeeding knowledge among primiparous women. Identifying and categorizing the content and the sources of breastfeeding knowledge could guide professionals such as midwives and maternity nurses as well as others in the women’s surroundings to engage in disseminating knowledge and therefore support women in achieving their breastfeeding goals. Methods: We conducted 26 in-depth interviews from the emic perspective with 13 new mothers pre- and postpartum, up to saturation level. Transcripts were analysed applying thematic analysis. As sensitising concepts, the themes identified were divided into two categories: those gained from 'professional' sources and those obtained from 'popular' sources. Results: Five knowledge content themes were identified: (1) pros and cons of breastfeeding, (2) how breastfeeding works, (3) individual breastfeeding practice, (4) expressing milk, and (5) formula feeding. ‘Professional’ sources are perceived as more helpful than ‘popular’ sources, whereas ‘intuition’ was inductively identified as an important knowledge source. Conclusion: Limited breastfeeding practice exposure, along with the recommendations to breastfeed for six months and perceptions of breastfeeding as ‘natural’ at the same time, generates much pressure in women. Emphasizing all knowledge content in campaigns, addressing a variety of target groups in women’s social environment, and recognizing intuition as an adequate source of knowledge supported by professionals will facilitate women in making informed infant feeding decisions.

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Maintaining the Flow: Medical Challenges to Breastfeeding and “Risky” Bodies in Mexico

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology

Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology

The COVID‐19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

The Content and Sources of Breastfeeding Knowledge for New Mothers in the Netherlands

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