Summary of Rupa Marya & Raj Patel's Inflamed

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#1 Rehumanizing means seeing not only the human behind a CT scan, but the more-than-human behind the picture of any individual. Our bodies have evolved in systems of deep relationships with the sun, soil, water, and tides.

#2 Decolonizing medicine begins with the project of rehumanization and reconnection, linking scans to people’s faces; patients to their families, their cosmologies, communities, and histories; and peoples to their lands and mountains and waters.

#3 Colonialism has changed the way we view and understand the world around us. It has altered the relationships that Indigenous people had with the world before European invasion, and it has severed a relationship to the past.

#4 We want to take the familiar, disconnected understanding of health and make it strange by extending the borders and limits of those systems. We outline a cartography of illness drawn by lines of power.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350016703

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#1

Rehumanizing means seeing not only the human behind a CT scan, but the more-than-human behind the picture of any individual. Our bodies have evolved in systems of deep relationships with the sun, soil, water, and tides.

#2

Decolonizing medicine begins with the project of rehumanization and reconnection, linking scans to people’s faces; patients to their families, their cosmologies, communities, and histories; and peoples to their lands and mountains and waters.

#3

Colonialism has changed the way we view and understand the world around us. It has altered the relationships that Indigenous people had with the world before European invasion, and it has severed a relationship to the past.

#4

We want to take the familiar, disconnected understanding of health and make it strange by extending the borders and limits of those systems. We outline a cartography of illness drawn by lines of power.

#5

Decolonizing allows us to stretch our diagnoses back to a time when the concept of the self mattered less than the relationships upon which our lives depended. It calls on us to develop new methodologies of diagnosis that center other ways of telling our stories and other ways of knowing.

#6

The body has an ancient and powerful mechanism to heal itself: the inflammatory response. When this response is chronic, it can lead to a systemic inflammatory state. The body’s healing mechanism is then transformed into a smoldering fire that creates ongoing harm.

#7

The relationship between aging and inflammation is called inflamm-aging. Central to this relationship is cellular senescence, the process by which aging cells permanently stop dividing but remain metabolically active. Some senescent cells go on to express the senescence-associated secretory phenotype, which transforms them into vigorous producers of the pro-inflammatory cytokines and other molecules that drive systemic inflammation.

#8

The exposome of modern life differs drastically from that of Indigenous and traditional people who maintain critical relationships with the living systems upon which their lives and health depend. While systemic inflammation and its accompanying diseases have increased dramatically across industrialized societies, they remain rare in traditional ones.

#9

The damage that is being done to our bodies is not the result of individual choices, but the mandates of a certain social, economic, political, and environmental ecology. To see these connections and then repair them is not to pine for a preindustrial lifestyle.

#10

The Revolutions of 1848 reverberated around Europe and the