- Publisher: Unicorn
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 290pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x130mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781913491260
- Product code: 538714
White Blood
A History of Human Milk
Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver New Paperback Illustrated
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From antiquity, when breastmilk was thought to be blood diverted from the womb and vivified, through the proliferation of wet nurses in the Renaissance, to the rise of bottle feeding, this account records changing knowledge and attitudes towards nourishing babies in the Western world.
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White Blood is a history of human milk and tells the story of how babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times and why it matters. 'Breast is Best' is the popular mantra, but there is a perennial debate about the pros and cons of 'breast and bottle'. White Blood explores this vital question, which has implications for the health and wellbeing of mothers, their young, families, communities and even countries. Starting in Ancient Greece and Rome, where human milk was thought to be blood diverted from the womb to the breast and there whitened and vivified, it lets the voices of those concerned with the care of newborn infants, and those who followed them, speak across the centuries of how they were, and should best be, nourished.
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