Postponed due to weather. Watch this space for the new time and date.
Dr. Wendy Johnson is the author of KINSHIP MEDICINE: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves. In her talk, she will explore how our well-being is rooted in relationship and connection–with each other and the natural world. Western medicine sees our bodies as machines to be repaired, but a more apt metaphor would be a garden, we are a part of nature. Your body itself is an ecosystem, existing inside progressively larger ecosystems until we consider the whole earth itself. We cannot be truly healthy when those ecosystems are sick and dying. Our modern way of living in most of the Western World is incompatible with maintaining the healthy ecosystems on which we depend.
Dr. Johnson is a family physician, writer, photographer and community activist whose career includes stints scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique, overseeing a large urban public health department and, most recently, directing a community clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s, The Nation, and newspapers in Cleveland, Seattle and Santa Fe. She spends most of her spare time cultivating and rewilding her acre and a half homestead, and writing about health justice and the intersection of human and environmental wellbeing.
Bookworks will be on hand with copies of Kinship Medicine.