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SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Viktorya Vasilyan: A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance \n\n\n\n\n\nDuring human history\, infants were fed human milk for survival\, either through breastfeeding by their mothers or adoptive breastfeeding by other women. From antiquity to today\, breastfeeding has been valued\, reflected in mythology\, philosophy\, art\, and religion worldwide. In ancient Armenia\, it was prized for its health benefits\, with wet nurses serving the upper classes while rural women breastfed for economic reasons. Colostrum was once deemed harmful but gained recognition in 1699 through Michael Ettmüller. During the European Renaissance\, breastfeeding saw renewed appreciation in art\, with depictions like suckler Lady and suckler Eve symbolising respect for motherhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigures such as Hildegard of Bingen and Regina Areshian\, founder of the Research Center of Maternal and Child Health Protection in Armenia\, studied maternal hygiene and wet nursing. This work explores sociological\, medical\, and moral treatises on these themes\, informed by research on the Virgo Lactans and Virgin of Humility. Iconography studies\, such as those by Williamson\, Sperling\, Rivera\, and Bergmann\, provide critical insights into the Eve-Mary relationship and sacred images\, though scholarly consensus on breastfeeding and wet nursing in the Middle Ages remains elusive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker…\n \n\n\n\n\nViktorya Vasilyan holds a PhD in History and serves as a researcher and the head of the Scientific Organisational Department at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, NAS RA. Additionally\, she is a lecturer at the Traditional Medicine University of Armenia. Currently\, she manages the “100 Archaeological Monuments of Armenia” project\, an initiative aimed at exploring and documenting significant archaeological sites across the nation. More information about this project is available at https://ama100.am/en. She is also honoured to serve as a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace\, Human Rights\, and Humanity with the IHRO in Armenia. \n\nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
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