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Imprint: Allen Lane
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Published: 03/08/2021
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ISBN: 9780241483619
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Length: 496 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 34mm x 162mm
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Weight: 697g
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RRP: £20.00
Inflamed
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Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body' Naomi Klein
'Health is not something we can attain as individuals, for ourselves, hermetically sealed off from the world around us. An injury to one is an injury to all.'
Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed. In this boldly original book, renowned political economist Raj Patel teams up with physician Rupa Marya to illuminate the hidden relationships between human health and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. In doing so, they offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization.
Journeying through the human body - our digestive, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, immune, and nervous systems - Marya and Patel show how inflammation is connected not just to the food that we eat, the air that we breathe and access to healthcare, but is also linked to the traumatic events we experience and the very model of health that doctors practice: one which takes things apart, rather than seeking to bring ideas and lived experiences together.
Combining the latest scholarship on globalization and biology with the stories of patients in marginalized communities and the wisdom of Indigenous groups, Inflamed points the way toward a medicine that heals what has been divided and has the potential to transform not only our bodies but the world.
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Imprint: Allen Lane
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Published: 03/08/2021
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ISBN: 9780241483619
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Length: 496 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 34mm x 162mm
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Weight: 697g
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RRP: £20.00
Reviews
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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
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A compelling book on the social and environmental roots of our poor health... the writers combine their respective expertise to analyse the workings of these cells and organs, and to interrogate how they have been disrupted by our modern constructs of capitalism, colonialism, extractivism and individualism, amongst others
Rachel Andrews, Irish Times
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At last! A book about medicine and healthcare that is holistic in the broadest sense in that it integrates histories of colonialism, conflict and inequality with alternative forms of knowledge. And all that while remaining compellingly readable and engaging.
Amitav Ghosh, author of Jungle Nama and Gun Island
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Science and medicine are often treated as fields that are subtracted from social movements, separate from the struggle for power that billions of human beings are embroiled in and abstracted from the material conditions around us. Luckily for us, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel are out here making these connections and encouraging us to see these as processes we all must take ownership of as we fight to have control of our surroundings. This book is on fire.
Boots Riley, frontperson for The Coup and Writer/Director of Sorry to Bother You
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A critique of the wreckage of capitalism and colonialism for our time--beautifully written, storytelling at its best. This book can change your life.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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Physician Marya, cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and University of Texas research professor Patel (The Value of Nothing) examine the social and environmental causes of ill health in this thought-provoking treatise . . . a persuasive argument for the need to address the systemic problems that plague people's minds and bodies
Publishers Weekly
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A passionate exploration of world poverty, racism, injustice, and colonialism that draws a parallel to inflammation. . .thought-provoking, knowledgeable, and ripe for debate and further study
Kirkus Reviews
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This gracefully intertextual book spans many realms of knowledge - infectious disease, abolitionist thought, short-sighted colonial cosmologies, immunology, the function of debt - to offer an explanation for the surge of inflammatory illnesses across the world . . . the book reconceptualizes inflammation as the result of wide-ranging injustices, which the colonized medical system has long overlooked . . . An important read, Inflamed calls for deep medicine, and a refiguring of our body as existing in a world that continually shapes us, for better and worse
Greta Moran, Civil Eats
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The book explores one area of our lives that has been subject to colonization: that of medicine. The authors provide both a practical and metaphorical exploration of the impacts of colonization through the idea of inflammation - inflamed bodies, an inflamed society, and an inflamed planet. Their insights help us to dismantle colonization in our institutions and in our minds while building new connections and ways of being through what the authors call 'deep medicine'
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