{"product_id":"american-disgust-matthew-j-wolf-meyer-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517916240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517916244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.63d","brand":"Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180586655999,"sku":"9781517916244","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0670d12d-3804-4646-b535-c7caa2ed06bc.jpg?v=1712898192","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-disgust-matthew-j-wolf-meyer-9781517916244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}