This review examines anthropological contributions over the past decade to the biocultural
processes and practices of lactation via the analytical pillars of colonialism, racial capitalism …

Objective: The WHO recommends that low birth weight infants receive donor human milk
(DHM) when mother's milk is not available. Systematic reviews have been published …

Background: Evidence is lacking on the phenomenon of peer-to-peer human milk-sharing in
the Middle East, specifically, in Israel. Research Aims: This study aimed to uncover peer-to …

Ethnographies involve the exploration of social phenomena in the field, typically for an
extended period of time. Traditionally, ethnographers listen to, observe, and directly …

This study explores the lived experiences of gay fathers in Israel who receive human milk
donations for their infants born abroad through surrogacy. Unlike regulated milk banks, peer …

In this research note, we call attention to human milk donation being essentially omitted from
the philanthropy literature and bodily gifting research. We focus here on human milk …

The paper investigates processes and consequences of 'philanthropic kinning', that is the
use of kinship and family idioms in constructing and maintaining personal relations between …

Every so often, among the bags of breast milk sent for donation to milk banks, clear bags of
milk are found that are hand decorated and accompanied by short texts written by donating …

Milk Matters is a Cape Town based non-profit milk bank. Their primary role is to collect
expressed breastmilk from donor mothers, pasteurize it and distribute it to recipient infants in …

La donación de leche humana ha sido un tema infravalorado y muy sesgadamente
examinado hasta hace relativamente poco tiempo, en relación comparativa con otros tipos …