🎧 Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

In this unabridged audiobook from Macmillan Audio, about 13 hours 32 minutes long, the physician Rupa Marya and the political economist Raj Patel read their 2021 book themselves. They work through the body's systems one at a time to show how biology is linked to injustice in politics and the economy.

Key Themes

• The digestive, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, immune and nervous systems
• How the body is shaped by politics and the economy
• Stories of patients in marginalised communities
• Indigenous knowledge and what the authors call a deep medicine of decolonisation

Sissoo recommends this because it looks at the whole body and the wider world together. It invites listeners to think about how their own wellbeing is tied to the places and systems they live in.

If it sparks an interest in caring for the body as a whole, you could explore Nutrition & Nature's Medicine or Body Therapies on Sissoo.

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