{"id":403,"date":"2017-06-10T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maq.dreamhosters.com\/book-forums\/?post_type=forum&p=403"},"modified":"2021-01-09T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:24:32","slug":"ed-yongs-i-contain-multitudes","status":"publish","type":"forum","link":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/forum\/ed-yongs-i-contain-multitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Yong\u2019s I Contain Multitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last summer, popular science writer Ed Yong published his book on the microbiome to great acclaim. The book,\u00a0I Contain Multitudes: the Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life<\/em><\/a>, became a bestseller and showed up on countless \u201cBest of\u201d book lists for 2016. Since many medical anthropologists work on topics that either touch upon the microbiome or deal with it outright, it seemed obvious that at least some of them should have a chance to publicly reflect on Yong\u2019s work. As anthropologists, we read journalists like Yong\u2019s work and sometimes complain about what they missed or how they simplified their subjects. Our role as public scholars is often to complicate things and to highlight that tales about things like microbiomes aren\u2019t always so easy to tell. In fact, sometimes the things that scientists study and that we research resist our attempts to tell coherent stories about them at all. Microbes are one such category of things. As you\u2019ll see in the collection of thoughtful, provocative, and often funny, reactions to Yong\u2019s book below, the microbiome is a messy and engrossing subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Wolf-Meyer\u2019s\u00a0reaction\u00a0to Yong\u2019s book may or may not be driven by his microbiota.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Multitudes without Politics<\/a><\/p>

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer | June 10, 2017<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n\n

Jamie Lorimer\u00a0examines\u00a0why liberals love the microbiome.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Why Liberals Love the Microbiome<\/a><\/p>

Jamie Lorimer | June 10, 2017<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n\n

Alex Nading\u00a0asks\u00a0if microbes can give gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Can Microbes Give Gifts?<\/a><\/p>

Alex Nading | June 10, 2017<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n\n

Amber Benezra\u00a0looks\u00a0at the stories Yong tells \u2013 and doesn\u2019t \u2013 about the microbiome.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Writing the Microbiome<\/a><\/p>

Amber Benezra | June 10, 2017<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n\n

Erin Koch\u00a0examines\u00a0our fuzzy relationships to microbes. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Radiating Microbes and Fuzzy Anthropologies<\/a><\/p>

Erin Koch | June 7, 2017<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n\n

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