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American Disgust

- Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
Af: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Engelsk Paperback

American Disgust

- Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
Af: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Engelsk Paperback
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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 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.

 

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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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 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.

 

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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 296
ISBN-13: 9781517916244
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1517916240
Kategori: Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier
Udg. Dato: 14 maj 2024
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 217mm
Højde: 140mm
Forlag: University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato: 14 maj 2024
Forfatter(e): Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Forfatter(e) Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Kategori Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier

ISBN-13 9781517916244

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 296

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 217mm

Højde 140mm

Udg. Dato 14 maj 2024

Oplagsdato 14 maj 2024

Forlag University of Minnesota Press

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