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Inflamed
- Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
- Narrated by: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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A doctor and an economist explore the hidden links between health and structural injustices, and set out a radical vision for a fairer world.
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 globalisation and biology with the stories of patients in marginalised 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.
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- Rosie
- 07-07-22
Perfect
One of the best books I've ever read. Heavy but worth it. Covers everything.
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- Nick S
- 17-08-23
Novel and interesting but overly reductionist
This book will make you angry, for mostly the right reasons. Shining light on social injustice in a novel body-systems approach, it weaves together the physical, social and spiritual into a powerful political argument for change. The theme of 'inflammation' as both a physical and social phenomenon is wonderfully insightful.
The authors are excellent at identifying that problems exist, but their diagnoses are overly simplistic. As with much of anthropology and social science, blame is laid at the door of 'colonialism' and 'capitalism'. These concepts are simply too broad and simplistic to be useful; they are nebulous moving targets that may as well be used as synonyms for 'evil', and the 'solutions' feel vague, impractical and unsatisfying .There is a somewhat anarchic feeling to the book and although I completely agree with the underlying principles - treating people with dignity and autonomy, empowering people to choose their own health outcomes and removing social injustice etc, there is often a fetishism of everything 'natural', simple, indigenous etc, as if all the problems in the world can be explained as 'capitalism' vs 'the other'. Too simplistic.
However, as a physician, I found the book to be eye-opening and motivating, and it has stimulated a greater awareness and understanding of the link between society and health, through inflammation
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