Book ID: CBB440792593

White Blood: A History of Human Milk (2021)

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Weaver, Lawrence T. (Author)


Unicorn Publishing Group


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 224
Language: English

White Blood explores how the nature and properties of human breast milk were conceived within the fluctuating frameworks of distinct historical periods. For example, in the ancient world, human milk was thought to be blood diverted from the womb to the breast, where it was whitened and vivified to nourish the newborn. In the Renaissance it became known as a vital fluid transmutable into flesh by an “internal alchemist”; in the Enlightenment it was said to flow from “nature’s bountiful urn.” From ancient Greece and Rome to the present, Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver traces the historical past of human milk across centuries, noting how the cultural and historical frameworks of the past informed the practices of milk feeding and its effects on infant health, growth, welfare, and survival.

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Authors & Contributors
Martucci, Jessica
Kroløkke, Charlotte
Arena, Francesca
Gurunluoglu, Aslin
Gurunluoglu, Raffi
Triplett, Katja
Concepts
Women and health
Medicine and gender
Mothers and children
Breast feeding
Medicine
Human body
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Medieval
Places
United States
Netherlands
Japan
Spain
Norway
Denmark
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