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Silencing the Whistleblowers
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Thanks everyone who de-lurked yesterday. Nice to meet you! So many of you have arrived at my blog because of the buzz surrounding the Library of Congress photos I found and posted. At the beginning it was extremely easy to find photos. Now, not so much. I have to hunt and hunt and hunt until I find one infant feeding photo, but it's worth it every time I finally stumble upon an historic gem.
I have come to the point now where an actual visit to the Library of Congress is in order. Although a lot of photographs are on the LOC Web site, there are still a lot that aren't. I will certainly be making a visit during the process of writing my book.
There are, though, still plenty of great photographs online; I just have to go through them picture by picture. Here's one that I found last night.
I thought the caption was quite interesting. It says:
Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A member of the Visiting Nurse Association pays a call to one of many young tenants of the defense trailer camp. High standards of sanitation are maintained, and every precaution is taken to guard against epidemic and disease.
Two things here: This is yet another photograph that shows bottle-feeding was high on the medical establishment's priority list. Notice the bottle on the right and the nurse holding the baby. Also, even though high sanitation standards were put in place to guard against disease there were no precautions put in place for the overall health of babies.
Some could argue that the medical industry didn't know then what we know now, but that's not the case. There were always whistleblowers who said breastfeeding was best, but they were virtually silenced by the medical and dairy industry.
Labels: breastfeeding history
posted by Jennifer James @ 9:27 PM,
1 Comments:
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At January 16, 2008 9:22 PM,
Lone Star Ma said...
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Another great photo! I think all those male doctors just couldn't deal with things they couldn't measure and control, you know?
