Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations

ISBN-13: 9781032178059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Tanya Cassidy; Fiona Dykes

Opis

Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the UK and beyond, asking questions such as: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices?

Recenzje

“Banking on Milk is an informative and well-written scholarship in an area that has been under-studied internationally. The existing scholarship related to each topic covered in this book is well-researched and documented. As readers, we can better understand many of the issues surrounding human milk exchange today by engaging with this book. It is an important book for anyone interested in the history and sociocultural context of infant feeding or human milk science.” – Joan E. Dodgson, Journal of Human Lactation

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Ethnography of Exchanging Human Milk In The Contemporary World

2. Moving Hospital Wetnurses To Bureaus and Banks

3. Building the Science and Society Of Human Milk With Banks with Bernard P. Mahon

4. "It’s Not Rocket Science": Practice and Policy in Human Milk Banking

5. Pumping for Preemies

6. Building Liquid Bridges

Endword by Tanya Cassidy

O autorze

Tanya Maria Cassidy is a Fulbright-HRB (Irish Health Research Board) Health Impact Scholar, an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Award (MSCA) fellow and an Irish Health Research Board Cochrane Fellow. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) where she held her MSCA. 

Fiona Clare Dykes is Professor of Maternal and Infant Health and leads the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN), University of Central Lancashire. She is an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and holds Visiting Professorships at Högskolan, Dalarna, Sweden and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Bernard Mahon is Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (Maynooth University). Currently, he is collaborating with a European consortium examining immunological crosstalk between mother and neonate, and scientific aspects of human milk exchange. He is a former chairperson of the Maynooth University Research Ethics Review Board.