{"product_id":"kinship-medicine-isbn-9798889842736","title":"Kinship Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Future We Choose\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Zones\u003c\/i\u003e, a book about the effect our relationship to nature has on our well-being and health.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur modern way of living is incompatible with our survival. Most of us intuitively know this truth, but almost everything in our society encourages us to ignore it. Dr. Wendy Johnson confronts this undeniable fact and breaks down how we think and act every day in ways that undermine our individual and collective well-being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe antidotes to many of the causal factors of poor health—loneliness, industrial diets, systemic inequality, fear of death, profit-based healthcare—are \u003ci\u003erelational\u003c\/i\u003e, with each other and with the living earth. Through evidence from public health, sociology, anthropology, human ecology, and her experience as a family physician, Dr. Wendy Johnson will show you how:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe must incorporate an “ecosystem” perspective into modern medicine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat you ingest and where you live can reinforce or upset your body’s delicate balance\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEliminating one organism in an ecosystem can affect all the others\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistories of trauma can be passed down for generations\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRekindling our relationships to non-human life is essential to our well-being\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeing closer to death can release some of its power over us\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eActions of communities will be stronger and more lasting than any individual efforts\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou will leave with a clear vision of what a new society might look like, methods to accomplish this transformation, and concrete examples of where it is being done successfully.\"A seminal, timely, and groundbreaking study...Life changing, life enhancing, life enriching.\" \u003cbr\u003e—The Midwest Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If there’s a word for the sickness that plagues our country, it’s hyperindividualism—and happily, as this fine book makes clear, there’s a cure: Connection. Relationship. Communion. Read this book—optimally in the company of others!”\u003cbr\u003e—Bill McKibben, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In an age of disconnection, Wendy Johnson offers a vital prescription for both personal and planetary flourishing. By bridging ancient wisdom and modern science, she offers a fresh and deeply human perspective on thriving in today’s world. Kinship Medicine is the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve turned the final page.”\u003cbr\u003e—Daniel H. Pink, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eDrive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Regret\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Such an important book for our time, for all times. We have much to discover about our body and the body of this earth and the profound connection between the two. This book opens those interconnected worlds for us.”\u003cbr\u003e—Rōshi Joan Halifax, founder and abbot of Upaya Zen Center\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There could not be a more urgent need for\u003ci\u003e Kinship Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e. The book’s central message—that collective human wellness is inextricably linked to the health of the fellow beings with whom we share the planet—is an important contribution to contemporary discourse on topics ranging from climate change to economic inequality. Dr. Johnson argues that we are inherently part of the ecosystems we inhabit, and that we cannot be healthy when those ecosystems are sick and suffering. To the extent that we damage our biome, we also harm ourselves. Wendy makes these arguments cogently, and from the unique perspective of an experienced physician, activist, and public health expert able to limn connections between our individual health and the global forces that shape it.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dr. Paul E. Farmer, cofounder of Partners In Health\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I devoured this book, hungry for its sumptuous wisdom on how we must come together in the soothing gardens of community if we are to nourish ourselves and the world. Dr. Wendy Johnson takes us to the cottonwoods and the coyotes and shows us the ecology cure to our individual and collective health. This book is a salve and a call to action.”\u003cbr\u003e—Sonora Jha, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A necessary book for our times. \u003ci\u003eKinship Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e weaves Johnson’s vast knowledge of human health from a physician’s perspective with global history and philosophy, and her own life story on the land and with its creatures. Taken together, the book makes a brave argument for hope for a healthier future for us all—humans, other-than-human beings, and the planet—through connection and community. Despite the darkness of our current moment, the book leans into the light just ahead.”\u003cbr\u003e—Robin McLean, author of \u003ci\u003ePity the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dr. Wendy Johnson has written a needed prescription not just for better medicine but for a better life at both societal and individual levels. Take as directed. Please.”\u003cbr\u003e—William Debuys, author \u003ci\u003eThe Trail to Kanjiroba\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eKinship Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is a wondrous journey through the systems of life, health, healing, and death from which we have become estranged, even in times when we think we know them all too well. As we build the communities we’ll need to survive the climate crisis, it’s good to know we’ll be able to look to our side and see Wendy Johnson in the trenches, digging with us, and healing us when we blister.”\u003cbr\u003e—Raj Patel, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eInflamed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dr. Wendy Johnson makes an elegant, intelligent, and heartfelt case for new ways of thinking about humanity’s place on Earth. Aspirational and celebratory, but also clear-eyed and historically informed, \u003ci\u003eKinship Medicine \u003c\/i\u003erevolves around a central point: ideas matter, and the creation of a sustainable future urgently requires us to challenge some of the most basic cultural and philosophical assumptions of the Western world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Frank Huyler, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Hot Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Strangers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kinship Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e explores modern America’s destructive disconnection to the depth, breadth, and essential importance of the natural world. As Americans born into ‘ecological catastrophe,’ Johnson urges us to overcome our fog of amnesia and recognize our need to be in relationship with our environment. To regain our own health, we must commit to the care and protection of every species, every ecosystem. Johnson maps a way forward to a sustainable, hopeful future with wise and compassionate directives, encouraging us to step into wild places, engage in community-building partnerships and endeavors, and be informed and inspiring activists in the creation of a better world.” \u003cbr\u003e—Lesley Poling-Kempes, author of \u003ci\u003eLadies of the Canyons\u003c\/i\u003eDr. Wendy Johnson is a family physician, public health professor, activist, and writer who has spent her life actively working for a world where everyone can live long lives in equitable communities. Her career includes stints scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique, overseeing an urban public health department, and, most recently, directing a community clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has a Master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins and holds faculty appointments at the University of Washington and the University of New Mexico. Dr. Johnson has been a vocal activist on many progressive issues both locally and globally and is a two-time TEDx speaker.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233299247333,"sku":"NP9798889842736","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798889842736.jpg?v=1767730775","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/kinship-medicine-isbn-9798889842736","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}