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The Arts of the Microbial World

The Arts of the Microbial World

Author: Victoria Lee

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226812748

Category: History

Page: 334

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"The Arts of the Microbial World explores how Japanese scientists and skilled workers sought to use the microbe's natural processes to create new products, from soy-sauce mold starters to MSG and from vitamins to statins. In traditional brewing houses as well as in the food, fine chemical, and pharmaceutical industries across Japan, they showcased their ability to deal with the enormous sensitivity and variety of the microbial world. Victoria Lee's careful study offers a lush historical example of a society where scientists asked microbes for what they termed "gifts." Lee's story ranges from the microbe's integration into Japan as an imported concept to its precise application in recombinant DNA biotechnology. By focusing on a conception of life as fermentation in Japan, she showcases the significance of cultural and technical continuities with the pre-modern period in sustaining non-Western technological breakthroughs in the global economy. At a moment when twenty-first-century developments in the fields of antibiotic resistance, the microbiome, and green chemistry strongly suggest that the traditional eradication-based approach to the microbial world is unsustainable, twentieth-century Japanese microbiology provides a new, broader vantage for understanding and managing microbial interactions with society"--
The Arts of the Microbial World
Language: en
Pages: 334

The Arts of the Microbial World

Authors: Victoria Lee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

"The Arts of the Microbial World explores how Japanese scientists and skilled workers sought to use the microbe's natural processes to create new products, from soy-sauce mold starters to MSG and from vitamins to statins. In traditional brewing houses as well as in the food, fine chemical, and pharmaceutical industries
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
Language: en
Pages: 304

Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations

Authors: David McAdams
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

A business professor at Duke University shows professionals how to become empowered "game-changers" that use circumstances to their best advantage through applying six different techniques to solve a variety of strategic challenges.
A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World
Language: en
Pages: 225

A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World

Authors: Lois N. Magner
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-30 - Publisher: ABC-CLIO

In keeping with the goal of this series, A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World provides a broad introductory overview of the history of major infectious diseases, including their impact on different populations, the recognition of specific causative agents, and the development of methods used to prevent, control,
Fundamentals of Microbiology
Language: en
Pages: 817

Fundamentals of Microbiology

Authors: Jeffrey C. Pommerville
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-15 - Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Fundamentals of Microbiology, Twelfth Edition is designed for the introductory microbiology course with an emphasis in the health sciences.
The Art of Fermentation
Language: en
Pages: 528

The Art of Fermentation

Authors: Sandor Ellix Katz
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-14 - Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to

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