Roberta Raffaetà

Metagenomic Futures (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000774443
• Artikelnr.: 66028979

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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