Warwick Anderson: Spectacles of Waste
Spectacles of Waste
Buch
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 03/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781509557417
- Bestellnummer: 11672010
- Umfang: 184 Seiten
- Gewicht: 255 g
- Maße: 214 x 139 mm
- Stärke: 37 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 29.3.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can't bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce waste. Why must we live by the rules of this intense scatological embarrassment? In Spectacles of Waste, leading historian of medicine Warwick Anderson reveals how human excrement has always complicated humanity's attempts to become modern. From wastewater epidemiology and sewage snooping to fecal transplants and excremental art, he argues that our insistence on separating ourselves from our bodily waste has fundamentally shaped our philosophies, social theories, literature and art-even the emergence of high-tech science as we understand it today. Written with verve and aplomb, Anderson's expert analysis reveals how in recent years, humanity has doubled down on abstracting and datafying our most abject waste, and unconsciously underlined its biopolitical signature across our lives.![Warwick Anderson: Spectacles of Waste, Buch](https://media1.jpc.de/image/w468/front/0/9781509557417.jpg)
Warwick Anderson
Spectacles of Waste
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