Abstract
The events described in the preceding chapters took place before I began my own study of the controversy which, up to then, I had followed only in the press. In the seven years which had passed since the affair first caught the attention of the public, every conceivable aspect of the problem of infant feeding in the Third World had been exhaustively debated. Medical, scientific, socio-cultural, economic, ethical, legislative, administrative and political issues had been raised, with profound differences of opinion emerging on practically every point.
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Veraldi, G. (1988). Escalation of the Campaign and Nestlé’s Response. In: Dobbing, J. (eds) Infant Feeding. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1618-9_8
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