breastfeeding

The Trump Breastfeeding Scandal

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 12, 2018

I've been plenty skeptical in the past of how American breastfeeding activists basically make bottle-using women seem like second class citizens who don't care about their children. Since most of these parents were raised on formula, I'm not sure that the correlation between good parenting...

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This Day in Labor History: January 25, 1984

By Erik Loomis

On January 25, 2015

This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul's dissertation, Planetary.

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Breastfeeding Daguerreotypes

By Erik Loomis

On June 22, 2013

A fascinating discussion of mid-19th century women who used their opportunity to pose for daguerreotypes and the first photographs to show themselves breastfeeding. And this is a great collection of.

How beneficial is breastfeeding?

By Paul Campos

In General

On April 5, 2010

A new study makes some audacious claims about the supposed value of breastfeeding. Apparently, such claims are both very common and very controversial. I'm not familiar with the relevant epidemiological literature, but I suspect that debates in this area are influenced heavily by, among other...

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