'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a
book in your very body' Naomi Klein 'Health is not something we can attain as individuals for
ourselves hermetically sealed off from the world around us. An injury to one is an injury to
all.' Our bodies societies and planet are inflamed. In this boldly original book renowned
political economist Raj Patel teams up with physician Rupa Marya to illuminate the hidden
relationships between human health and the profound injustices of our political and economic
systems. In doing so they offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization.
Journeying through the human body - our digestive endocrine circulatory respiratory
reproductive immune and nervous systems - Marya and Patel show how inflammation is connected
not just to the food that we eat the air that we breathe and access to healthcare but is also
linked to the traumatic events we experience and the very model of health that doctors
practice: one which takes things apart rather than seeking to bring ideas and lived
experiences together. Combining the latest scholarship on globalization and biology with the
stories of patients in marginalized communities and the wisdom of Indigenous groups Inflamed
points the way toward a medicine that heals what has been divided and has the potential to
transform not only our bodies but the world.
