Social Practices And Microscopic Matter Challenging Ideas About Bodies Microbes And Health

It is widely recognised that biological microbial and social processes constitute each other but there is much less agreement about what this means or about how this interweaving should be conceptualised and studied. Whilst recognising that there has been huge growth in more-than-human approaches and in contributions from science and technology studies and feminist scholarship this volume advocates that more ideas are needed if we are to address global threats including the impacts of climate change growing antimicrobial resistance pandemics the geographies and distribution of zoonoses and other large biosocial phenomena. Contributors from disciplines including anthropology geography sociology and public health bring these resources to bear on fundamental questions about scale and transmission the place of human bodies in social and biological theory and concepts of health risk and disease. Informed by real-life examples relating to food insects water and air the spread of disease and antimicrobial resistance the result is an agenda-setting book positioned at the intersection of research and policy. It will appeal to scholars and academics with interest in social theory microbes and public health as well as academics and advanced students of geography anthropology sociology medical sociology social studies of science and the history of health. |Social Practices and Microscopic Matter Challenging Ideas about Bodies Microbes and Health