Sublime

By 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.

This is why most people choose doctors in whom they have confidence. A patient’s

But functional medicine isn’t concerned solely with health problems; it isn’t looking at the connection between your outside world and your inside physiology just to rid your body of its health problem. Rather, its systems approach is a way of finding the proper match between your genetic uniqueness and your environment, lifestyle, and behavior so

Most doctors—most humans, really—have unwittingly inherited a colonial worldview that emphasizes individual health, disconnecting illness from its social and historical contexts and obscuring our place in the web of life that makes us who we are.