WolfMeyer, Matthew J.

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

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ISBN 13:
9781517916244
author:
WolfMeyer, Matthew J.
format:
Paperback
publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2024
Pages:
296
Dimensions:
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 centimetres (0.3
Genre:
Science
Condition:
New
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£20.99

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American Disgust Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer explores the complex relationship between food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Wolf-Meyer reveals how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are deeply rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. The book examines how changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness. 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. By exploring these connections, American Disgust sheds light on how changing cultural notions of digestion create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. This book offers a thought-provoking analysis of how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity. By engaging with the complexities of disgust, readers can gain a deeper understanding of health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

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