Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
the human organism is always being influenced by society and culture, by forces of history, habitat and the activity of the microbiome. These long body forces are so powerful and pervasive that we might well come to the conclusion that our impression of personal free will is nothing more than a neurological magic trick.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
The state of a person’s immune system is, among other things, a reflection of that person’s socioeconomic status and their history as a citizen of a flawed polis, I now understood.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
The cardinal concept in the Hippocratic Corpus was that health was equilibrium and illness an upset, an explanation probably owing much to pre-Socratic attempts to understand the stability yet changeability of nature.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
The state of a person’s immune system is, among other things, a reflection of that person’s socioeconomic status and their history as a citizen of a flawed polis, I now understood.