At 06:37 PM 9/24/96 -0400, Linda Rosetti wrote:
 the local Drs. a letter (we
>have made arrangements, ie paid! for the speaker to speak at a breakfast
>lecture with just physicians) in the letter we would again let them know
>about our workshop, invite them to the breakfast and publish a list of who
>attends in a ad that thanks the Drs. and recognizes them as breastfeeding
>supporters.

It sounds nothing like coercion to me.  Physicians probably get these sorts
of invitations all the time and go if they think the talk will be good and
worthwhile, the other attendees will be interesting and probably lastly, if
they think breakfast will be good.  They will probably not know about the ad
beforehand, will they?  The ad is a good thing for members of the community
but will probably have little impact on the  physicians.  I'm extrapolating
from the academic community on this and the physicians I know personally.

Kate

Like (other countries) breastfeeding in the US is embedded in a wider
cultural context, one that is very different but no less powerful in shaping
breastfeeding behaviours.  In the US, the wider cultural context of
breastfeeding is shaped by four fundamental assumptions that underlie
beliefs about breasts: 1) the primary purpose of women's breasts is for sex,
not for feeding children, 2) breastfeeding serves only a nutritional
function, 3) breastfeeding should be limited to very young infants, and 4)
breastfeeding, like sex, is apporpriate only when done in private. -
Katherine Dettwyler, PhD in Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives

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