"Dana Raphael, an apostle of breast-feeding and a catalyst for the movement to recruit nonmedical caregivers to assist mothers during and after childbirth — attendants she called doulas — died on Feb. 2 at her home in Fairfield, Conn. She was 90.

The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, her son Seth Jacobson said.

Dr. Raphael, a medical anthropologist and a protégée of the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, was among the first scientists to challenge milk formula manufacturers, linking a proliferating dependence on formula to high infant mortality rates in impoverished developing nations."


Kathleen B.  Bruce RN IBCLC
Vermont .. USA
8025786841


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