Metagenomic Futures: How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human

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Roberta Raffaetà

Metagenomic Futures

How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human

Roberta Raffaetà

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English

Routledge
30 November 2022

Society & culture: general; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology; Medical anthropology

Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

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.

By: Roberta Raffaetà
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 603g
ISBN: 9781032068633
ISBN 10: 1032068639
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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