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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Main Author: Cressida Heyes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mount Saint Vincent University 2016-10-01
Series:Atlantis
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Online Access:https://140.230.24.104/index.php/atlantis/article/view/4096
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