Journal article
Hookworms make us human: the microbiome, eco-immunology, and a probiotic turn in Western healthcare
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Historians of science have identified an ecological turn underway in immunology, driven by the mapping of the human microbiome and wider environmentalist anxieties. A figure is emerging of the human as a holobiont, composed of microbes and threatened by both microbial excess and microbial absence. Antimicrobial approaches to germ warfare are being supplemented by probiotic approaches to restoring microbial life. This article examines the political ecology of this probiotic turn in Western hea...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Anthropological Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Medical Anthropology Quarterly Journal website
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 60-79
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-06-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1548-1387
- ISSN:
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0745-5194
- Source identifiers:
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855884
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- pubs:855884
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-06
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- American Anthropological Association
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 by the American Anthropological Association. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from American Anthropological Association at: https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12466
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