Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present
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Abstract
1. Wet Nursing in Antiquity c.3000 BC - 300 AD: the Ancient Near East and India 2. Wet Nursing in Antiquity c900 BC - c.700 AD: Greece and Rome 3. Wet Nursing in the Mediterranean World c.400 - c.1200 4. The Wet Nurse in Medieval Europe c.1050 - c.1450 5. The Renaissance Wet Nurse: the Case of Florence c.1350 - c.1550 6. Wet Nursing in the Renaissance c.1450 - c.1600 7. The English Wet Nursing System in the Seventeenth Century 8. The Occupational Diseases of Wet Nurses c.1700 9. Wet Nursing in the Eighteenth Century 10. Wet Nursing in Colonial America 11. The Nursing of Infants Abandoned and Lost 12. The Nursing of Infants Abandoned and Lost: the Case of the London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century 13. The Demise of the Wet Nurse c.1800 - c.1914 14. Wet Nursing in the Modern World c.1900 to the Present