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“Love is a microbe too”: Microbiome dialectics (2022)

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Whereas the Human Genome Project was an anthropocentric research endeavour, microbiome research entails a much more interactive and symbiotic view of human existence, seeing human beings as holobionts, a term coined by Lynn Margulis to emphasise the interconnectedness and multiplicity of organisms. In this paper, building on previous authors, a dialectical perspective on microbiome research will be adopted, striving to supersede the ontological divide between self and other, humans and microbes, and to incorporate the microbiome as a crucial dimension of human existence, not only corporally, but also in terms of mood and cognition. On the practical level, microbiome insights promise to offer opportunities for self-care and self-management, allowing us to consciously interact with our microbiome to foster wellness and health. How to distinguish realistic scenarios from hype? Here again, an interactive (dialectical) approach is adopted, arguing that practices of the self should result from mutual learning between laboratory research and life-world experience.

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Article Davina Höll; Leonie N. Bossert (2022) Introducing the microbiome: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 100817). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wiseman, Matthew
Michal Schwartz
Maroney, Stephanie Ruth
Mika, Marissa Anne
Suárez, Javier
Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui
Concepts
Health
Human body
Microbiome; microbiota
Multispecies studies; interspecies studies
Biology
Holobionts
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Belarus
Manitoba (Canada)
South Africa
Institutions
University of Western Ontario (Canada)
McGill University
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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