Metagenomic Futures - How Microbiome Research Is Reconfiguring Health What It Means to Be

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial perspective.

List of contents

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

About the author

Roberta Raffaetà is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Summary

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Raffaeta, Roberta Raffaetà
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032120898
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212089-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, biochemistry