Harrington, AnneSangodeyi, Funke Iyabo2014-06-062014-06-062014Sangodeyi, Funke Iyabo. 2014. The Making of the Microbial Body, 1900s-2012. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11692http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274300This 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.en-USHistory of scienceMicrobiologyHealth sciencesbacteriologyecologygood germsmicrobiologymicrobiomenormal floraThesis or Dissertation2014-12-04