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Rupa Marya and Raj Patel – Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

Presented by Point Reyes Books and Mesa Refuge at Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station CA

Jul 16 2022
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel – Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

In-person author event: hidden relationships between our biological and political/economic systems

In conversation with Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu

$20, proceeds benefit the Mesa Refuge

Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel (joining us virtually from Austin) in conversation about their new book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (FSG). Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu will serve as moderator.

“A work of exhilarating scope and relevance to this infected moment in the body politic. Inflamed mixes medicine, argument, and metaphor into a post-pandemic poultice: reading it is the first step in the deep medicine it prescribes. What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body.” —Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

This event is presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge. Ticket sales benefit the residency program.

Space for this in-person event is limited. Please register early to ensure your seat.

 

The Covid pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma.

Mass uprisings around the world in response to systemic racism and violence. Rising numbers of climate refugees. Our bodies, societies, and planet are inflamed.

Boldly original, Inflamed takes us on a medical tour through the human body—our digestive, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, immune, and nervous systems. Unlike a traditional anatomy book, this groundbreaking work illuminates the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems.

Inflammation is connected to the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the diversity of the microbes living inside us, which regulate everything from our brain’s development to our immune system’s functioning.

It’s connected to the number of traumatic events we experienced as children and to the traumas endured by our ancestors.

It’s connected not only to access to health care but to the very models of health that physicians practice.

Raj Patel, the renowned political economist and New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with the physician Rupa Marya to offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization.

Decolonizing heals what has been divided, reestablishing our relationships with the Earth and one another. Combining the latest scientific research and scholarship on globalization with the stories of Marya’s work with patients in marginalized communities, activist passion, and the wisdom of Indigenous groups, Inflamed points the way toward a deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies, but the world.

 

Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, an activist, a mother and a composer. She is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. She is a cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. At the invitation of Lakhóta health leaders, she advises the Mni Wichoni Health Circle, an Indigenous-led health sovereignty project at Standing Rock decolonizing food and wellness. She is the cofounder of the Deep Medicine Circle, a women of color-led, worker directed organization healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning. Through the Deep Medicine Circle, she leads the Farming is Medicine program, an innovative reparative food system example, which starts with moving land back to Indigenous hands and farming under their sovereignty, centering values of reciprocity, mutual benefit and reintegration into right relationship with one another and the web of life. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa & the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.”

Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked at the World Bank and WTO, and has been teargassed on four continents protesting against them. A James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, he has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US, UK and EU governments, and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, and the coauthor of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, all of which have been translated and taught across the world, as have his scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics, and public health journals. His first documentary, filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is The Ants & The Grasshopper. He is a board member of the Deep Medicine Circle.

Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu (PhD) is a Tongan scholar, storyteller and community organizer. Her activism and storytelling center issues of: ending violence against women in Tongan and Pacific Islander families and communities, land, water and climate Justice, prison abolition and organizing Pacific Islander communities to stand as allies and accomplices with California Indian tribes in their work to rematriate the land and to protect Indigenous sacred sites from desecration. She is currently a University of California Presidents Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis and in Fall 2023, she will start a new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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$20, proceeds benefit the Mesa Refuge

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3:00 pm

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Dance Palace

503 B St., Point Reyes Station, CA 94956

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