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Inflamed : deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice / Rupa Marya and Raj Patel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marya, Rupa, 1975- author.
- Patel, Raj, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health services accessibility.
- Equality--Health aspects.
- Equality.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Social Medicine.
- Social Justice.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Social Medicine.
- Social Justice.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Social Science / Disease & Health Issues.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 484 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 Macrophage
- 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 the 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 of 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 PM 2.5
- Investment Climate Change
- Breathing Truth to Power
- 5. Reproductive System: Rematriating Strawberry Fields
- Reproducing Colonization: Witches and Healers on the Frontline
- What Sky woman Knew
- The Agonies of OB/GYN
- On Strawberry Fields and Seeds and Schools
- 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 Solidarity
- The Tree of Life
- Inflammaging
- Justice Is the Medicine
- The Mind Outside 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374602512
- 0374602514
- OCLC:
- 1240828382
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