Medicine and Injustice - Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

Published: July 31, 2022, 8 p.m.

This week, we look at the connection between the state of our bodies and the state of the planet, with physician\xa0Rupa Marya\xa0and journalist\xa0Raj Patel,\xa0Their new book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, draws on Dr. Marya\u2019s work as a physician, as well as scientific research and scholarship on the social and environmental causes of poor health. On July 21, 2022, the two spoke to author Anna Lapp\xe9 about how we ought to be re-thinking medicine, and the links between illnesses that reside inside our bodies and the injustices that exist in society at large.