Placenta-Eating and the Epistemology of Ignorance
This article argues that human postpartum placentophagy—eating one’s placenta—is an example of an epistemology of ignorance. Placentophagy has been stubbornly resistant to conventional scientific inquiry, but has nonetheless been the subject of considerable epistemic speculation based on very littl...
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Mount Saint Vincent University
2016-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://140.230.24.104/index.php/atlantis/article/view/4096 |
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