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Fresh Fruit, Broken Systems has an intimate study of the everyday lives and hurting of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market makes, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and healthcare. Holmes' material is visceral and powerful. He trekked along with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before these were deported. He resided with indigenous young families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in plantation labor camps in the US, planted and gathered corn, picked strawberries, and followed sick employees to clinics and clinics. This "embodied anthropology" deepens our theoretical knowledge of the ways in which social inequalities and hurting come to be perceived as normal and natural in world and in healthcare.
