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

3.0

Critical discussion of medicine’s exclusion of systems and environment in care delivery which leads to burdening individuals with sole responsibility for outcomes. The medical systems complacency with oppressive systems, participation in these systems and active support of their perpetuation comes through multiple perspectives. I appreciated the broad and inclusive approach that decentered established medicine. The penultimate and last chapters drove home the thesis that care delivery and caring cannot be commodities of individual health, but rather shared creation of community building. We are all connected, and we build health through caring relationships.