{"product_id":"american-disgust","title":"American Disgust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575196844214,"sku":"9781517916237","price":96.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781517916237_be29e6c0-2d6a-4ed1-b80b-c792d4f43150.jpg?v=1726482559","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/american-disgust","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}