1987
DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.4.2.183
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The Medical and Demographic Importance of Wet-Nursing

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“…234-235). One theory attributes the decline to laws that limited the use of wet-nurses (Hill, Johnston, Campbell, & Birdsell, 1987). Our theory sheds no new light here.…”
Section: The Close Proximity Of Industrialization and Fertility Declinementioning
confidence: 96%
“…234-235). One theory attributes the decline to laws that limited the use of wet-nurses (Hill, Johnston, Campbell, & Birdsell, 1987). Our theory sheds no new light here.…”
Section: The Close Proximity Of Industrialization and Fertility Declinementioning
confidence: 96%
“…The machines are argued to somehow “run themselves,” to the extent that the infants only need be fed and bathed, the role of their assigned nurses. It has also been pointed out that although the term “nurse” in English originally referred to “wet nurse,” it later took on its contemporary meaning to “take care of someone.” However, this linguistic change did not occur with the French or German terms (la nourrice; die Amme) where the original word for nurse still refers to wet nurse ( Hill et al, 1987 ). In the case of the image in Figure 2 , these nurses were in fact wet nurses.…”
Section: Expanding Medical and Scientific Fame Technology And Control...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rawson 1966, 2005and Shaw 1987 10. For a brief overview of wet-nursing practices from a Greek and Roman to a nineteenth-and twentieth-century European context, see Hill, Johnston, Campbell and Birdsell 1987;Fildes 1986Fildes , 1988 on Talmudic evidence for Jewish wet-nursing, see Eidelman 2006. 11. With regard to the question of geography, the evidence includes, for example, the nursing contracts found in Egypt such as P. Oxy.…”
Section: Milk and Moral Development In A Greco-roman Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%