The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease (2020)
Webb, James L. A., Jr. (Author)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: 520
Language: English
The Guts of the Matter is a study of our oldest ecological problem: the transmission of infectious intestinal disease from human waste. Spanning the early hominin era to the present, this book explores the evolution of human waste disposal practices, the use of faeces and urine as fertilizer, and the changing patterns of transmission of intestinal pathogens and parasites. Chapters trace the spread of viral, bacterial, and helminthic infections through the early processes of globalization and track the uneven successes of the sanitation revolution in recent centuries. The book also provides an overview of the cultural practices that influence the transmission of infectious intestinal disease and the impacts of biomedical advances such as oral rehydration therapy and vaccination. Webb's impressive breadth and meticulous research is invaluable for students of public health, environmental history, global history, and medicine.
...MoreReview Randall M. Packard (2021) Review of "The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 607-608).
Review Peter J. Smith (2021) Review of "The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 101-103).
Review Hilary A Smith (July 2020) Review of "The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease". Environmental History (pp. 571-572).
Review Jamie Benidickson (2021) Review of "The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease". American Historical Review (pp. 1621-1622).
Review John Nott (July 2021) Review of "The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 263-264).
Similar Citations
Book
Lina Zeldovich;
(2021)
The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health
(/isis/citation/CBB868955208/)
Article
Almeida, Maria Antónia Pires de;
(2014)
As epidemias nas notícias em Portugal: cólera, peste, tifo, gripe e varíola, 1854--1918
(/isis/citation/CBB001420729/)
Article
Igor J. Polianski;
Maria Tutorskaya;
Oxana Kosenko;
(2021)
„Sieben Plagen auf einmal schlagen“ – Theatrale Hygienepropaganda und Infektionskrankheiten in der Sowjetunion der 1920 er–40 er Jahre
(/isis/citation/CBB209895150/)
Article
Sioban Nelson;
(2020)
Nursing infectious disease: a history with three lessons
(/isis/citation/CBB140801105/)
Article
Paul Kreitman;
(April 2018)
Attacked by Excrement: The Political Ecology of Shit in Wartime and Postwar Tokyo
(/isis/citation/CBB063827653/)
Article
Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán;
(2020)
Sanitary infrastructures and the decline of mortality in Germany, 1877–1913
(/isis/citation/CBB374894262/)
Article
Michael Hau;
(2016)
Constitutional Therapy and Clinical Racial Hygiene in Weimar and Nazi Germany
(/isis/citation/CBB845213653/)
Book
Filtzer, Donald A.;
(2010)
The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943--1953
(/isis/citation/CBB001230952/)
Article
Martyr, Philippa;
(2010)
“The Cleanest Man on Earth”: Harcourt Whipple Ellis and the NLA Australian Newspapers
(/isis/citation/CBB001232085/)
Book
Rodolfo Brutti;
(2021)
Biblioteca medica. I libri antichi conservati presso le biblioteche del CEDIDO e dedicati alle scienze mediche e naturali
(/isis/citation/CBB008330282/)
Article
Kristina Söderholm;
Roine Wiklund;
(2009)
Infrastructural Systems and Technical Change: Learning from the Establishment of a Water- and Wastewater System and the Electrification of a Railway Line in a Nordic Climate at the Turn of the 19th Century
(/isis/citation/CBB191956462/)
Book
Roberto Cea;
(2019)
Il governo della salute nell'Italia liberale. Stato, igiene e politiche sanitarie
(/isis/citation/CBB824360140/)
Book
Antonio Longo;
(2022)
Achille Spatuzzi e la medicina sociale nella Napoli post-unitaria. Una biografia intellettuale (1835-1920)
(/isis/citation/CBB249250483/)
Article
Anderson, Warwick;
(2007)
Immunization and Hygiene in the Colonial Philippines
(/isis/citation/CBB000671328/)
Book
Sonja M. Kim;
(2019)
Imperatives of care : Women and medicine in colonial Korea
(/isis/citation/CBB468149090/)
Book
Anderson, Warwick;
(2006)
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Phillipines
(/isis/citation/CBB000831472/)
Book
Katherine Mason;
(2016)
Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic
(/isis/citation/CBB907982802/)
Article
Barron H. Lerner;
(2018)
Climate Change?: The Environment, Physicians, and Historians
(/isis/citation/CBB298609655/)
Article
Suzuki, Akihito;
(March 2019)
Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950
(/isis/citation/CBB706461179/)
Article
Álvarez, Adriana;
(2010)
La experiencia de ser un 'niño débil y enfermo' lejos de su hogar: el caso del Asilo Marítimo, Mar del Plata (1893--1920)
(/isis/citation/CBB001420440/)
Be the first to comment!