L’influence des nourrices sur la formation physique et morale des enfants qu’elles allaitent selon les médecins et moralistes espagnols des XVIème et XVIIème siècles

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10326344
AutoresSarah Pech (autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen43
Número4
Páginas493-507
Fecha de publicación2007-07-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPaedagogica Historica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-9230 • E-ISSN: 1477-674X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00309230701438104
OpenAlexW2043108002
IdiomaFR
Citas recibidas6

Wet‐nursing is a very old practice. In Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was mainly characteristic of nobility and administrative or intellectual elites, but tended to spread throughout society. Moralists, clergymen and medical writers tried to fight against wet‐nursing and to convince ‘bad mothers’ to breastfeed their babies instead of leaving them to poor wet nurses who lived in the countryside and had a very bad influence on children. Indeed, it has been commonly admitted, since Aristotle and Pliny, that milk transmits qualities and vices, and that wet nurses can corrupt the future morality and habits of the babies they feed

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