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Nested Ecologies : A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine / Rosalynn A. Vega.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vega, Rosalynn A., author.
- Series:
- William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
- The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronically ill--Care.
- Chronically ill.
- Chronically ill--Treatment.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Functional medicine.
- Medical anthropology.
- Vega, Rosalynn A.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Functional medicine is a personalized and holistic approach to healing chronic disease. It can be an alternative to conventional care, or work in combination with it, but the idea is to go beyond treating verifiable symptoms and try to understand each person's unique biology and address all of the interrelated causes of their disease. FM practitioners may prescribe changes to diet as well as drugs, informed as much by gut microbes and DNA testing as lab results. Functional medicine is a growing segment of health care, one worth studying and especially so because there are no other books on the topic. However, Rosalynn Vega's research into FM began when she was seeking more effective treatment for her own struggles with chronic disease. As she puts it in a preface, "it was my training as a medical anthropologist that saved me...This book is the story of how I used ethnography as the primary tool in my recovery.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Anthropology of and for healing
- The birth of an anthropologist
- Paradigm shifts
- Stuck in a web of chronic disease
- Systems biology
- Genetic fate?
- (Epi)genetics and its multiple implications
- A "vampire" no more
- The political ecology of "human" microbiology
- The social microbiome
- Toxicity
- Food justice
- Health is a process
- Persons described in this book.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781477326886
- 147732688X
- 9781477326879
- 1477326871
- OCLC:
- 1369599483
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