White Blood: A History of Human Milk by Weaver, Lawrence

White Blood: A History of Human Milk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781913491260)

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Format: Paperback
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White Blood: A History of Human Milk by Weaver, Lawrence

White Blood: A History of Human Milk

$22.95
White Blood: A History of Human Milk by Weaver, Lawrence

White Blood: A History of Human Milk

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking history of human milk

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.

Author: Lawrence Weaver, Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver
ISBN-10: 1913491269
ISBN-13: 9781913491260
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 5.00h x 7.60w x 1.10d

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Choice 03/01/2022
By Lawrence Weaver
By Lawrence Weaver
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Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver is professor emeritus of child health and an honorary senior research fellow in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is the author of Painter of Pedigree, also published by Unicorn.

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