Rupa Marya (Author)
Rupa Marya is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of the Do No Harm
Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing
disease through structural change. A physician and activist, she is
also a composer and musician whose music was described by legend
Gil Scott Heron as 'Liberation Music.'
Raj Patel (Author)
Raj Patel is a research professor at the University of Texas at
Austin's Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, a Research
Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa, and a member of the
International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. He is
the author of Stuffed and Starved, the New York Times bestselling
The Value of Nothing and co-director of the forthcoming documentary
The Ants and the Grasshopper.
A work of exhilarating scope and relevance to this infected moment
in the body politic. Inflamed mixes medicine, argument, and
metaphor into a post-pandemic poultice: reading it is the first
step in the deep medicine it prescribes. What a rare and powerful
experience to feel a book in your very body.
*author of On Fire*
Provocative and thought provoking. . . a reckoning with modern
medicine . . . At each physiological juncture, the co-authors
relate the malfunctions of human biology to the inadequacies of our
political and economic systems
*GQ*
A compelling book on the social and environmental roots of our poor
health... the writers combine their respective expertise to analyse
the workings of these cells and organs, and to interrogate how they
have been disrupted by our modern constructs of capitalism,
colonialism, extractivism and individualism, amongst others
*Irish Times*
Urgent, impeccably researched . . . a subversive political analysis
. . . remarkably lucid
*Guardian*
A remarkably powerful analysis . . . compelling detail . . . a
revolutionary book that calls for courageous action to dismantle
those structures that harm the health of people and the planet and
to rebuild ones that centre care
*The Lancet*
At last! A book about medicine and healthcare that is holistic in
the broadest sense in that it integrates histories of colonialism,
conflict and inequality with alternative forms of knowledge. And
all that while remaining compellingly readable and engaging.
*author of Jungle Nama and Gun Island*
Science and medicine are often treated as fields that are
subtracted from social movements, separate from the struggle for
power that billions of human beings are embroiled in and abstracted
from the material conditions around us. Luckily for us, Rupa Marya
and Raj Patel are out here making these connections and encouraging
us to see these as processes we all must take ownership of as we
fight to have control of our surroundings. This book is on
fire.
*frontperson for The Coup and Writer/Director of Sorry to Bother
You*
A critique of the wreckage of capitalism and colonialism for our
time--beautifully written, storytelling at its best. This book can
change your life.
*author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States*
Compelling reading... It encourages both clinicians and members of
the public to look at their health intrinsically linked to other
people, their own community, the environment, as well as the
politics and economics of their country, and more broadly, the
world
*BJGP Life*
Inflamed takes the reader on a journey deep inside the human body .
. . In doing so, it reveals how external inequalities affect these
systems and cause serious harm
*New Scientist*
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