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oapen-20.500.12657-585942022-10-14T03:07:02Z Banking on Milk Cassidy, Tanya Dykes, Fiona Nursing specialties;Social and cultural anthropology;Health, illness and addiction: social aspects bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MQ Nursing & ancillary services::MQC Nursing::MQCL Nursing specialties bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFH Illness & addiction: social aspects Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices? Chapters record the practical everyday reality of work in a milk bank by drawing on extensive ethnographic observations and sensitive interview data from donors, mothers of recipients and the staff of four different milk banks from across the UK, and visits to milk banks across Europe and North America. It discusses the ongoing pressures to do with supply, demand and distribution. An empirically informed ""ethnography of the contemporary"", where both biosociality and biopower abound, this book includes an exploration of how milk banks evolved from registering wet nurses with hospitals, showing how a regulatory culture of medical authority began to quantify and organize human milk as a commodity. This book is a valuable read for all those with an interest in breastfeeding or organ and tissue donation from a range of fields, including midwifery, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and public health. 2022-10-13T10:18:06Z 2022-10-13T10:18:06Z 2019 book 9781138559073 9781032178059 9781351364119 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58594 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781351364119.pdf http://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/agentjpg/978020371/9780203713051.jpg Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203713051 10.4324/9780203713051 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb ace76817-129c-4a77-a963-c0ac447c29ff 9781138559073 9781032178059 9781351364119 Routledge 146 Dublin City University DCU open access
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Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices?
Chapters record the practical everyday reality of work in a milk bank by drawing on extensive ethnographic observations and sensitive interview data from donors, mothers of recipients and the staff of four different milk banks from across the UK, and visits to milk banks across Europe and North America. It discusses the ongoing pressures to do with supply, demand and distribution. An empirically informed ""ethnography of the contemporary"", where both biosociality and biopower abound, this book includes an exploration of how milk banks evolved from registering wet nurses with hospitals, showing how a regulatory culture of medical authority began to quantify and organize human milk as a commodity.
This book is a valuable read for all those with an interest in breastfeeding or organ and tissue donation from a range of fields, including midwifery, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and public health.
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