Abstract
Samalin perceives in this Darwin's commitment to an idea of biosemiosis (sign systems other than language) that confirms disgust as part of a communicative system among other animals even though it has now become an involuntary response to disgusting food among humans. [...]like the Great Stink before it, it prompted surprisingly swift government action on long-stalled legislation, ultimately ushering in the groundbreaking 1956 Clean Air Act. At the end of the day, the assiduity with which Samalin has charted 1857 to 1860 is complemented by the laser-like precision with which he has uncovered a valuable array of arguments and ideas that would be largely illegible without the cogent and precise accounting of disgust this book ably puts forth.