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Metagenomic Futures - How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human (Hardcover)
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Metagenomic Futures - How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be
human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial
perspective. It engages with the scientific study of the microbiome
and the vast microbial biodiversity that surrounds and constitutes
us. Microbes connect human bodies with the environment in which
they live and have important implications for both human and
environmental health. Scientists studying the microbiome are
explorers of uncharted life and in this venture they are
constrained by onto-epistemic working practices grounded in the
reductionist paradigm of molecular biology. At the same time,
however, they configure the microbiome ecosystem as an aspirational
form of ecological co-habitation. The aim of the book is to
critically explore the ethical, political and ontological
implications of microbiome science in times of profound
socio-technical and ecological transition and engage with them
productively from an anthropological perspective. It suggests ways
to revitalize current debates within medical anthropology,
environmental anthropology, science and technology studies and
anthropology at large, especially with regard to posthumanism, the
ontological turn and critical data study.
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