{"product_id":"nested-ecologies-a-multilayered-ethnography-of-functional-medicine-hardback-9781477326855","title":"Nested Ecologies; A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (Hardback) 9781477326855","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNested Ecologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRosalynn A. Vega (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477326855, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 April 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 8 b\u0026amp;w images, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNested Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e is an important read for functional medicine practitioners and advocates, along with other medical practitioners who are interested in learning more about functional medicine, structural competency, and the social and structural determinants of health. Additionally, medical anthropologists interested in alternative medicine, postgenomics, chronic illness, and the politics of access will find rich material here, as will food studies scholars interested in clinical approaches to food systems, nutrition, and health.\u003c\/div\u003e (H-Net Reviews (H-Sci-Med-Tech)) \u003cdiv\u003eVega offers a much-needed critique of health care systems that normalize managing, rather than alleviating, chronic illness and disease, and that treat symptoms as individual and isolated rather than connected to and made possible by a person’s living conditions . . . Throughout [\u003ci\u003eNested Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e], Vega effectively merges science writing and medical anthropology and offers critical, timely, and vulnerable discussions of health and health care; food production and distribution; and social, medical, and environmental activism.\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow functional medicine leverages systems biology and epigenetic science to treat the microbiome and reverse chronic disease.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNested Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prelude: Anthropology of and for Healing \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Interlude: The Birth of an Anthropologist \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1: Paradigm Shifts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Interlude: Stuck in a Web of Chronic Disease \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2: Systems Biology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Interlude: Genetic Fate? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3: (Epi)genetics and Its Multiple Implications \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Interlude: A “\u003cbr\u003eVampire”\u003cbr\u003e No More \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4: The Political Ecology of “\u003cbr\u003eHuman”\u003cbr\u003e Microbiology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5: The Social Microbiome \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Interlude: Toxicity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion: Food Justice \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Postlude: Health Is a Process \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix: Persons Described in This Book \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Works Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52590988427544,"sku":"9781477326855","price":82.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/nested-ecologies-a-multilayered-ethnography-of-functional-medicine-hardback-9781477326855","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}