wet-nursing: References & Edit History
Additional Reading
Valerie A. Fildes, Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present (1988); Janet Lynne Golden, A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (1996, reissued 2001).
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Maternal Breastfeeding or Wet Nursing? Religion, Persecution, and Ideology in the 17th Century. | Sep 11, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Breast into Service. Wet Nurses in Late Medieval England (PDF). | Mar 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BMC - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth - A cross-sectional study on the practice of wet nursing among Muslim mothers. | Jul 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Wet nursing: a historical perspective. | Mar 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: MLibrary Digital Collections - The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project - Wet-nurse. | Sep 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Wet Nursing: A Historical Review and its Ideal Characteristics. | Jul 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hektoen International - Wet nursing: a historical perspective. | Jun 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Maternal Breastfeeding or Wet Nursing? Religion, Persecution, and Ideology in the 17th Century. | Feb 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kidipede History for Kids - Wet Nurse. | Sep 10, 2014 | ||
| New article added. | Dec 05, 2013 |
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