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Rupa Marya
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Rupa Marya is a San Francisco-based physician, activist, musician and writer who co-authored Inflamed, examining connections between health and structural injustice.
Biography
Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, musician and writer based in San Francisco. She is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition and was a professor of medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine.
Marya co-authored Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice with Raj Patel in 2021. The book explores relationships between the body's systems and political and economic injustice, including connections to childhood and ancestral trauma. It presents deep medicine as an approach to healing that involves decolonization and restoring relationships with the Earth and other people.
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Books by Rupa Marya
Inflamed
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice examines the body's systems to explore links between health, structural injustice, and childhood and ancestral trauma. Marya and Patel present decolonization and renewed relationships with the Earth and one another as potential paths toward healing bodies and the world.