Nested Ecologies : : A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine / / Rosalynn A. Vega.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 8 b&w images, 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prelude. Anthropology of and for Healing
- Introduction
- Interlude • The Birth of an Anthropologist
- Chapter 1 Paradigm Shifts
- Interlude • Stuck in a Web of Chronic Disease
- Chapter 2 Systems Biology
- Interlude • Genetic Fate?
- Chapter 3 (Epi)genetics and Its Multiple Implications
- Interlude • A “Vampire” No More
- Chapter 4 The Political Ecology of “Human” Microbiology
- Chapter 5 The Social Microbiome
- Interlude • Toxicity
- Conclusion. Food Justice
- Postlude • Health Is a Process
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix. Persons Described in This Book
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index