Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781138559073 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 05/31/2019 Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness Pages: 146 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices? Chapters record the practical everyday reality of work in a milk bank by drawing on extensive ethnographic observations and sensitive interview data from donors, mothers of recipients and the staff of four different milk banks from across the UK, and visits to milk banks across Europe and North America. It discusses the ongoing pressures to do with supply, demand and distribution. An empirically informed "ethnography of the contemporary", where both biosociality and biop