New York Times:
Are poor mothers given infant formula by aid agencies unwittingly starving their children?
Solomon, Stephen. "The Controversy Over Infant Formula," New York Times, December 6, 1981.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E2D61738F935A35751C1A967948260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=2
Recent coverage of contaminated formula in China.
Yardley, Jim. "13,000 Babies in Hospital for China Formula," New York Times, September 21, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/world/asia/22china.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=formula&st=cse&oref=slogin
JSTOR:
A broad-ranging feminist analysis of techno-scientific mediation of motherhood, including formula use and breast feeding practices.
"The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order," Donna J. Haraway. Feminist Review, No. 55, Consuming Cultures (Spring, 1997), pp. 22-72.
Academic Search Premier:
The effects on breast feeding of direct-to-consumer advertising of baby formula in hospitals
Johnson, Teddi Dineley "Formula handouts affect breastfeeding," Nation's Health; Mar2008, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p4.
Followed a link on Wikipedia:
History of baby formula with additional links to primary sources.
"The Food Timeline – baby food history notes," The Food Timeline. Lynne Olver 2004
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbaby.html
patrick nagle
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haha, this museum's great. the controversies over baby formula are crazy.
an interesting and productive counterexample might be the practice of breastfeeding yr kids until way-late, or "letting the child decide for himself when to stop"
i have a hunch that there's some very similar logic (strangely) running behind the controversies over baby formula and the controversies over long-term breast feeding -- precisely what is claimed by one side as "natural" is claimed by the other as "UNnatural"; the effects of cultural presuppositions about "maternal bond" ("kids will be F-ed up", etc); what exactly is being "substituted" in either case ("real" food vs fake food (infant formula), or "real" food vs mother's milk?
..it might end up actually being an example of the same thing you're looking at with baby formula, in the guise of its seeming-opposite.
just a thought.
Pablo
What sprung to mind for me is the issue of veganism and the whole other set of ethical implications involved in making that choice for your child. I suppose what would be interesting is the question of the difference in materiality - in nutrional terms, fats, proteins and so forth - between vegan formula and regular formula or breastmilk.
A . Mangels Considerations in planning vegan diets infants. Journal of the American Dietetic Association , Volume 101 , Issue 6 , Pages 670 - 677
or, a discussion board about irresponsible vegan parents:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=671974
Jonathan
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