Description
Book SynopsisHow functional medicine leverages systems biology and epigenetic science to treat the microbiome and reverse chronic disease.
Trade ReviewNested Ecologies 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. * H-Net Reviews (H-Sci-Med-Tech) *
Table of 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
