Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body

"Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably unlike any conversation you have had with your physician. Raise the topic of diabetes or dementia, and Schettler starts talking about income disparities, industrial farming, and campaign finance reform. The Harvard-educated physician, frustrated by the limitations of science in combating disease, believes that finding answers to the most persistent medical challenges of our time-- conditions that now threaten to overwhelm our health care system-- depends on understanding the human body as a system nested within a series of other, larger systems: one's family and community, environment, culture, and socioeconomic class, all of which affect each other. "

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