The Making of the Microbial Body, 1900s-2012
Contributors: Harrington, Anne; Landecker, Hannah; Rosenberg, Charles; Shapin, Steven
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Description: This dissertation examines how the relationship between microbes and the human body has been reconfigured over the course of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. It presents a counter-narrative to the ways in which we have tended to view microbe-human relations to make sense of the emergence of twenty-first century microbial selves by focusing on the normal microbiota.
Notes: Keywords: bacteriology, ecology, good germs, microbiology, microbiome, normal flora.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2014