Deep Medicine and Decolonization at Terra Madre

Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 3:30 p.m.

b'Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, founder and director of the Deep Medicine Circle, and co-author of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice. She sits down with Dylan Heuer to discuss the connections she sees between colonization and contemporary afflictions like the disproportionate harm caused by Covid-19. She draws on Indigenous knowledge to advocate for a more holistic approach to wellbeing that includes treating farmers as stewards of our health and involving doctors in social justice organizing.'