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Nested Ecologies – A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (Hardcover)
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Nested Ecologies – A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (Hardcover)
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How functional medicine leverages systems biology and epigenetic
science to treat the microbiome and reverse chronic disease. Each
body is a system within a system--an ecology within the larger
context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental
factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby
structural inequalities are literally encoded in our genes. But our
ecological embeddedness extends beyond DNA, for each body also
teems with trillions of bacteria, yeast, and fungi, all of them
imprints of our individual milieus. Nested Ecologies asks what it
would mean to take seriously our microbial being, given that our
internal ecologies are shaped by inequalities embedded in our
physical and social environments. Further, Rosalynn Vega argues
that health practices focused on patients' unique biology
inadvertently reiterate systemic inequities. In particular,
functional medicine--which attempts to heal chronic disease by
leveraging epigenetic science and treating individual
microbiomes--reduces illness to problems of "lifestyle,"
principally diet, while neglecting the inability of poor people to
access nutrition. Functional medicine thus undermines its own
critique of the economics of health care. Drawing on novel digital
ethnographies and reflecting on her own experience of chronic
illness, Vega challenges us to rethink not only the determinants of
well-being but also what it is to be human.
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Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Rosalynn A. Vega
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
328 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4773-2685-5 |
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LSN: |
1-4773-2685-5 |
Barcode: |
9781477326855 |
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