Food, blood, nutrients
On eating placenta & the limits of edibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12799349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Vaughn (0000-0002-3776-4640, International Center for Research on Women, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 639-656 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-8014 • E-ISSN: 1751-7443 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15528014.2019.1638127 |
| OpenAlex | W2964486211 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article examines the recent influx of post-partum placenta encapsulation, especially in a US context. I analyze placental reuse, and its biomedical risk narratives, through an interwoven exploration of the curative and toxic aspects of human placenta, to understand increased cultural value placed upon this organ as an object of nutritional interest and tension. Placenta consumption as vitamin source pushes the socio-cultural boundaries of disgust through its discard (re)commodification. I argue that attempts to market and eat otherwise wasted material as functional food source raise important feminist questions about the vitality of this discarded matter and the paucity of research on one of the most crucial mediators of early human nutrition
Biology · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Disgust · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Fetus · Narrative · Placenta · Pregnancy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology
Human Cheese
Eating Right in America
Tissue Economies
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Depression Care Among Low-Income Women
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Factors Associated With Early Postpartum Depressive Symptoms
Sweetness and power
Technologies of the Self
For my wellness, not just my illness
Food as exposure
Attitudes Toward Placentophagy
Human Maternal Placentophagy
In Search of Human Placentophagy
Placentophagia in Humans and Nonhuman Mammals
Sugar ecologies
The Changing Status of Offal
The placenta economy
Empowering Disgust
The Paradox of Natural Mothering
The fetal tissue economy
Living with Omega-3
Placental Surfaces and the Geographies of Bodily Interiors
Japanese Mothers and Obentōs
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |