9. Making Choices
The Ethics of Infant Feeding
- Sheila Lintott Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324525.ch9
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone
Additional Information
How to Cite
Mulford, C. (2010) Making Choices, in Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone (ed S. Lintott), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444324525.ch9
Editor Information
Bucknell University, USA
Publication History
- Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
- Published Print: 24 SEP 2010
Book Series:
Book Series Editors:
- Fritz Allhoff
Series Editor Information
Western Michigan University, USA
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444330281
Online ISBN: 9781444324525
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- mom's morality - ethical issues in mothering;
- making choices - the ethics of infant feeding;
- mothers and babies, actors in the newborn feeding story;
- marsupial or primate mother - carrying baby till it can keep up with her troop;
- embodied roles, finding a balance between her needs and her child's needs;
- riff on infant feeding - early feeding, a nutritional transition period;
- ethical questions about infant feeding;
- duty or obligation - to oneself, to others or to a higher power;
- mothers duties to their children and themselves - in maintaining health;
- human babies and their vulnerability
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
A Riff on Infant Feeding
Ethical Questions about Infant Feeding
Closing Thoughts on Classification and Responsibility
Notes