{"product_id":"american-disgust-racism-microbial-medicine-and-the-colony-within-paperback","title":"American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew J. Wolf-Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Disgust\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 advice books, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At its core, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Disgust\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life; Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age\u003c\/i\u003e (all from Minnesota). \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47748517069049,"sku":"9781517916244","price":52.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/H1K6Z6rTPC9781517916244.webp?v=1775061317","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/american-disgust-racism-microbial-medicine-and-the-colony-within-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}