Description: American Disgust : Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within, Paperback by Wolf-meyer, Matthew J., ISBN 1517916240, ISBN-13 9781517916244, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness. Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg's ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advics, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease. At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels. "--
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Book Title: American Disgust : Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Wit
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: American Disgust : Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Life Sciences / Microbiology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, Medical
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
