A review by massagebyg
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rajeev Charles Patel, Rupa Marya

challenging hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was transformative for me as someone who has dealt with a "rare" chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease for over a decade. Inflammation has such a presence in my life, I immediately wanted to pick this up when I heard there was a whole book on it. This piece to me felt like the missing link that I needed in order to understand that what I was experiencing was a part of a greater issue, a systemic one. Or rather, that health in of itself cannot be considered a personal issue without also addressing the circumstances around that individual ("the exposome") and the factors that influence them. This book helped me realize that inflammation in of itself is a collective issue and that there is A LOT that can be done across many sectors of life to help improve outcomes for all, but especially those who are most marginalized by the global capitalist system. This book is wonderfully written and deeply researched. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in global health, health systems, activism, community aid, ableism, etc. but really everybody.