‘Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice’, a new book by Raj Patel and Rupa Marya, is a tour of the human body that reveals the links between our biology and political and economic injustices such as racism, poverty and colonialism. Patel and Marya ultimately offer a cure of “deep medicine decolonization” to heal our bodies and the world by reconnecting to the earth and each other.
Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed non-profit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.
Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a research professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.
