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“Blood made white”: the relationship between blood and breastmilk in early modern England

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posted on 2019-11-05, 11:57 authored by Jennifer Evans, Sara ReadSara Read
This article explores the idea that breastmilk was considered to be a form of blood in the humoral system.

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School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • English and Drama

Published in

Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities

Volume

11

Issue

4

Publisher

Hektoen International

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2019-11-05

Notes

This co-authored piece has been entered for the Hektoen prize for blood themed essays. Winners to be announced in January 2020.

ISSN

2155-3017

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Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Sara Read Deposit date: 5 November 2019

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    Keywords

    bloodbreastmilkearly modernpregnancyuterus

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    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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