ERC Starting Grant · 2020
Remaking Health in a Microbial Planet by Crossing Space, Time, Species and Epistemic Cultures
Microbiome science is popularizing a symbiotic understanding of health and ecology. What microbiome science now knows is that microbes entangle the health of people and environments; what we don’t know is how, in this process, new cultural concepts and practices of health may emerge. This project asks: how does health come to be reconfigured in a world entangled through microbial data? HealthXCross is a multi-sited, comparative ethnographic study of how scientists produce and coordinate knowledge within the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP). EMP is a US-founded and transnational research network to enable the collection, comparison and integration of microbial data across time, space and…
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