20 must-read nonfiction books like Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya

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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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2. Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective

By: Kathleen Cleaver , Scott Crow

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of di… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Cleaver's Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective book and Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Queer Art of Failure

By: J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more

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5. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • science
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6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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7. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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10. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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11. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

By: Harsha Walia

4.59

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more

Similar categories in Harsha Walia's Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism book and Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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12. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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13. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism book and Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
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14. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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15. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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16. Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

By: Cara Page

4.54

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

17. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

By: Santi Elijah Holley

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as se… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya

18. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more

Similar categories in Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice book and Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  • race
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • science
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19. Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice

By: Susan McConnell

4.00

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the innovative intersection of somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), featurin… read more

Similar categories in Susan McConnell's Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice book and Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health by Eugene T. Richardson

20. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

By: Eugene T. Richardson

4.39

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to o… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First by Wendy Dean

21. If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

By: Wendy Dean

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for pati… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

12 Top history books like Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective

Kathleen Cleaver , Scott Crow

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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14 Top audiobook books like Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

Transform Your Habits

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

4.61

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