Breastmilk insufficiency : a dance between biology & culture / Milton Herrera.

"This book is an outgrowth of the field research on the phenomenon of breastmilk insufficiency in Esmeraldas, Ecuador (2008). Theoretically speaking, in these pages, the reader will find a constant link between the cultural and biological spheres, thus further developing the interdisciplinary theory on the breastmilk insufficiency phenomenon. Methodologically speaking, this book is based on data from a prospective longitudinal study. This work is expected to contribute not only to the literature of human biology and medical anthropology, but also to the fields of geography, demography, medicine, nursing, physiology and psychology, among others. This book's specific aims are threefold: first, to elucidate, define, and analyze the phenomenon of breastmilk insufficiency. Second, to show breastfeeding data from a Latin America region -for scholars to have more data to examine breastfeeding's human ecology. Third, to share the first-hand methodology and fieldwork techniques used for many years, that can be replicated in further research."-- From publisher.