Sangodeyi, Funke Iyabo (Author)
Harrington, Anne
Landecker, Hannah
Harvard University
Landecker, Hannah
Rosenberg, Charles E.
Shapin, Steven
Rosenberg, Charles E.
Edition Details: Advisor: Harrington, Anne; Committee Members: Landecker, Hannah, Rosenberg, Charles, Shapin, Steven.
Physical Details: 327 pp.
Language: English
This dissertation examines how the relationship between microbes and the human body has been reconfigured over the course of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. It presents a counter-narrative to the ways in which we have tended to view microbe-human relations to make sense of the emergence of twenty-first century microbial selves by focusing on the normal microbiota. This dissertation investigates why the notion of a microbial framework for the body gained cultural, scientific and medical force in the twenty-first century. It tracks the prehistory of this development and ends with the National Institutes of Health's Human Microbiome Project, which marks the mainstreaming of an appreciation for the importance of the microbes that live in and on the body as a scientific area of study, as an important aspect of biomedicine, and as a cultural phenomenon. I argue that there was a reorientation of medicine, science and culture that engendered a new appreciation for and shed new light on the kinds of problems and questions that researchers in marginal microbiologies were struggling to make sense of earlier. I argue that these kinds of questions and concerns came to matter more broadly with the rise of the environmental movement and the ecological sciences in the mid- to late twentieth century because they were ecological and environmental in orientation.
...MoreDescription Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-A 75/10(E), Apr 2015. Proquest Document ID: 1558183858.
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