{"product_id":"gut-anthro-an-experiment-in-thinking-with-microbes-hardback-9781517901295","title":"Gut Anthro; An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes (Hardback) 9781517901295","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGut Anthro\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Experiment in Thinking with Microbes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmber Benezra (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517901295\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 15 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"From start to finish, \u003ci\u003eGut Anthro\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how relations are integral to science. With bold, page-turning prose, Amber Benezra traces microbiokinships from kitchen tables to scientific laboratories, offering a refreshingly honest analysis of how knowledge and process are one and the same. \u003ci\u003eMiscarriage. Diarrhea. Career ambitions. Humanitarian hubris. Anthropological complicity. \u003c\/i\u003eWe learn from microbes-and the messy, fragile, tenacious humans that study them-how much the minute details of mundane life matter. Alternately hopeful and unsettling, this is a book that expertly does what microbes have always done: change how we see, how we collaborate, and who we are.\"-Emily Yates-Doerr, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"This is an utterly arresting ethnographic examination of a networked bioscience project that stretches from sample collection in Bangladesh to data analysis at a U.S. university. Amber Benezra offers an account-rigorous, revelatory, wrenching-of the vexed promises of acting as both participant and observer in the contact zones of today’s international biomedical research.\"-Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"[Benezra] produces nuanced layers of analysis and challenges existing frameworks to ensure that practical concerns for human justice are not erased.\"-\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"An excellent introduction to a number of knotty problems in the anthropology (and perhaps also sociology) of microbes.\"-\u003ci\u003eSociology of Health \u0026amp; Illness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eGut Anthro \u003c\/i\u003emakes a unique contribution to feminist science studies and the anthropology of science and microbial life.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Benezra holds the heavy door of microbiome research open for scholars wishing to carry out science differently. As only her first publication, \u003ci\u003eGut Anthro\u003c\/i\u003e will surely be followed by other inquiries that render precarious our most polished conceptions of what it means to be healthy as humans.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Medical Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trillions of microbes in and on our bodies are determined by not only biology but also our social connections. \u003ci\u003eGut Anthro\u003c\/i\u003e tells the fascinating story of how a sociocultural anthropologist developed a collaborative “anthropology of microbes” with a human microbial ecologist to address global health crises across disciplines. It asks: what would it mean for anthropology to act \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e science? Based partly at a preeminent U.S. lab studying the human microbiome, the Center for Genome Sciences at Washington University, and partly at a field site in Bangladesh studying infant malnutrition, it examines how microbes travel between human guts in the “field” and in microbiome laboratories, influencing definitions of health and disease, and how the microbiome can change our views on evolution, agency, and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs lab scientists studied the interrelationships between gut microbes and malnutrition in resource-poor countries, Amber Benezra explored ways to reconcile the scale and speed differences between the lab, the intimate biosocial practices of Bangladeshi mothers and their children, and the looming structural violence of poverty. In vital ways, \u003ci\u003eGut Anthro\u003c\/i\u003e is about what it means to collaborate-with mothers, local field researchers in Bangladesh, massive philanthropic global health organizations, with the microbiome scientists, and, of course, with microbes. It follows microbes through various enactments in scientific research-microbes as kin, as data, and as race. Revealing how racial categories are used in microbiome research, Benezra argues that microbial differences need transdisciplinary collaboration to address racial health disparities without reifying race as a straightforward biological or social designation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGut Anthro\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force of science studies and medical anthropology as well as an intensely personal and deeply theoretical accounting of what it means to do anthropology today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover alt text:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack background overlaid with a pink organic path suggestive of a human digestive system. 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