One year ago, this blog began as a quiet corner. Then, in the summer of 2025, I shared five Friday posts – introductions to five books that crack open the foundations of medical science.
But the real story is not about me.
Patients carried the series. Clinicians shared it. Artist‑researchers – the beautiful minds living at the intersection of illness and creativity – sent me messages saying: Keep going.
I kept going. And when the five weeks ended, the conversation had not. It had only found its shape.
Today, that shape is a physical book – and also an eBook.
Summer of Unlearning: A Series for Reimagining Healthcare is not a textbook. It is not a neutral survey of decolonial thought. It is a deprogram – a short, intense, and caring invitation to unlearn 400 years of European ethnoscience and to join the patient‑led scientific revolution.
What patients will find inside
Week 1: Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic – how the medical gaze turns bodies into objects, and whose stories vanish when health becomes a dataset.
Week 2: Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending – why your body is not a battlefield, and why healing demands sovereignty.
Week 3: Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals – where silence becomes strength, and scars become sites of resilience.
Week 4: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna‑Samarasinha’s Care Work – access as love, not compliance. Care as world‑building.
Week 5: A reframing of immunology through Dharmic and Bantu lenses – because the global majority has always known that healing is not a war.
Between these weeks: trigger warnings that are acts of care, questions that are therapeutic incisions, and a final invitation – blank pages with butterflies, a Rumi field, and the question “What will your next step be?”
What a patient says
“This book cracked my chest open and then taught me how to breathe again. A necessary scalpel for anyone trapped in the war metaphors of modern medicine.”
– Connie Montgomery, award‑winning Global Patient Advocate
Where to get the book
📘 Print edition– on Lulu
📱 eBook – also on Lulu (on its way)
The only question that matters
I did not write this book to be consumed. I wrote it to be unlearned with. To be discussed, conversed with, and used as a tool for the patient‑led scientific revolution.
That revolution does not ask for permission. It is already here.
Will you join?
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
– Dr. Linda Bonga Bouna
Epistemo‑pathologist, science decolonization writer, global pharma leader, grateful collaborator with artist‑researcher patients
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