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Inflamed

byRupa Marya, Raj Patel, Rupa Marya (Read by), Raj Patel (Read by)

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

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What is the link between gut biodiversity, structural racism, and mental health?
How does colonialism continue to cause lethal disease around the world?
Why are First Nation people who speak their native language better protected against diabetes?

Inflamed journeys across the human body - through our digestive, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, immune, and nervous systems - illuminating the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. This boldly original book shows how inflammation is connected not just to the food that we eat and the air that we breathe, but is also linked to the traumatic events we experience, the stories we tell, and the arts of diagnosis that physicians practice - and fail to practice - every day.

Combining the latest scholarship on globalization and biology with the stories of patients in marginalized communities and the science of Indigenous groups, Inflamed points the way toward a deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies but the world.

A work of exhilarating scope and relevance to this infected moment in the body politic. Inflamed mixes medicine, argument, and metaphor into a post-pandemic poultice: reading it is the first step in the deep medicine it prescribes. What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body.

Naomi Klein, author of On Fire

About Rupa Marya

Rupa Marya is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. A physician and activist, she is also a composer and musician whose music was described by legend Gil Scott Heron as 'Liberation Music.'
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  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • ISBN: 9780241516133
  • Length: 811 minutes
  • Price: £13.00
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