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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One, Public Discourse andPrivate Relations: Wet Nursing in Colonial America; Chapter Two, The NewMotherhood and the New View of Wet Nurses, 1780-1865; Chapter Three, Finding'just the right kind of woman': The Urban Wet Nurse Marketplace, 1830-1900;Chapter Four, 'Victims of Distressing Circumstances': The Wet Nurse LaborForce and the Offspring of Wet Nurses, 1860-1910; Chapter Five, MedicalOversight and Medical Dilemmas: The Physician and the Wet Nurse, 1870-1910;Chapter Six, 'Obliged to have wet nurses': Relations in the PrivateHousehold, 1870-1925; Chapter Seven, 'Therapeutic Merchandise': Human Milk inthe Twentieth Century; Epilogue, From Commodity to Gift