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Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession
4th ed, by Ruth A. Lawrence, 878 pp, with illus, $46.95, ISBN 0-8016-6858-1, St Louis, Mo, Mosby—Year Book, 1994.
Marjoriean Bowman, MD, MPA, Reviewer
Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(5):470.
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This is the textbook on breast-feeding. From that perspective, it is a good reference book for family physicians. However, it has its pluses and minuses.
On the plus side, the author has reviewed over 15 000 references and has provided the most comprehensive source of information available. This book is about the only source that summarizes information on breast-feeding infants with special medical problems, such as cleft lip or palate or tracheoesophageal fistula. Induced lactation and relactation and cross-nursing are well covered. There is a chapter on human milk-banking. In addition, there are lists of information sources. There is also historic and cross-cultural information that provides interesting reading, but is of little use in my practice.
As a breast-feeding mother at the time of this writing, I was particularly interested in
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