Inflamed : deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice /
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel.
- First edition.
- viii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. As the world burns ; Diagnosis: Dia (apart) + Gignoskein (to know) ; Pillage and plunder ; But modern medicine is great ; Deep medicine ; The anatomy of injustice -- 1. Immune system: I am because you are. The immunes strike back ; Metchnikoff and the microphage ; The "broken windows" theory of immunology ; The art of healing ; A wound that never heals ; Fighting fire with fire ; History is written in the body ; Cultivating community immunity -- 2. Circulatory system: salmon are the pump. Flows of silver, flows of debt ; Debt as a choke point ; An introduction to biochemistry of stress and inflammation ; Cardiovascular disease as an inflammatory disease ; Downstream ecosystem death ; Salmon are the pump ; Living wage and debt relief -- 3. Digestive system: the forest within. The enchanted forest ; The gut microbiome: a guide to the forest ; Seeding the forest ; Tending the forest ; Web of life and death ; How to colonize a blue zone ; Decolonizing our guts -- 4. Respiratory system: the last thing you smell is a forest fire. How forests burn ; Size matters ; The fantastic voyage of PM₂.₅ ; Investment climate change ; Breathing truth to power -- 5. Reproductive system: rematriating strawberry fields. Reproducing colonization: witches and healers on the frontline ; What Skywoman knew ; The agonies of OB/GYN ; On strawberry fields and seeds and school ; Condolence and rematriation -- 6. Connective tissue: beyond border medicine. The skin's border patrol ;The color of medicine ; Medicine's master race ; Tokenism vs. transformation ; How to decolonize a hospital ; The edge effect -- 7. Endocrine system: building a new normal. Liquid anatomy ; You give me fever ; The new normal ; The tragedy of the built environment ; The opposite of stress ; A political anatomy -- 8. Nervous system: the web of life. Subterranean solitary ; The tree of life ; Inflammaging ; Justice is the medicine ; The mind outside of your brain ; Composting our grief ; The original world wide web ; Mushroom medicine ; Systems of care -- 9. Deep medicine: making the body whole. Modern medicine is a prison, abolition is the cure ; Beyond the self for deep medicine ; Double wampum ; A culture of care.
"Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--
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