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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10326344
AutoresSarah Pech (autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume43
Fascículo4
Páginas493-507
Data de publicação2007-07-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPaedagogica Historica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-9230 • E-ISSN: 1477-674X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00309230701438104
OpenAlexW2043108002
IdiomaFR
Citações recebidas6

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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