1st Edition
Metagenomic Futures How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human
By Roberta Raffaetà
Copyright 2023
240 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1 Introduction; 2 What are Microbes?; 3 Microbes and Health: A Paradigm Shift; 4 Studying Microbes: Wet Biology and Dry Biology; 5 "Just Think Computationally!": How the ‘Natives’ Think; 6 The Ethics and Politics of the Pragmatic Approach; 7 "Overselling the Microbiome"; 8 The Microbiome, Genetics and Post-Genomics; 9 The Microbial Ecosystem at the Crossroads Between Disciplines; 10 Conclusion
Biography
Roberta Raffaetà is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
