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Spectacles of Waste
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The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue, and antibacterial hand soap. 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...
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The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue, and antibacterial hand soap. 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 faecal 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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781509557417
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 249g
Pages: 184
About the Author
Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics at the University of Sydney. In 2023, he was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
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