{"product_id":"american-disgust-racism-microbial-medicine-and-the-colony-within-9781517916244","title":"American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Disgust\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At its core, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Disgust\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life; Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age\u003c\/i\u003e (all from Minnesota). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50402472591634,"sku":"9781517916244","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad66b1b6-29ad-4131-b57c-61bc1386a08c.jpg?v=1756796780","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-disgust-racism-microbial-medicine-and-the-colony-within-9781517916244","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}