Fecal microbiota transplants: emerging social representations in the English-language print media

This study investigates how English-language news sources have represented fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). FMT involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a recipient with a dysfunctional intestinal flora in order to repopulate their gut microbiome. FMT applications are increasingly movi...

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Published in:	New Genetics and Society
Main Authors:	Carmen McLeod, Brigitte Nerlich, Rusi Jaspal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2019-07-01
Subjects:	fecal microbiota transplantation metaphorical framings human-microbial relations
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2019.1637721