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Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' new initiative to broadly expanded involuntary hospitalization law and policy in New York, and the dark history of psychiatric institutionalization the plan appears to want to bring back.

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Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim.

Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007).

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Bea speaks with Doron Dorfman about how social and political narratives of disabled people as "fakers" cheating the welfare system ultimately come to influence how disability is defined in law and policy.

For more on some of the topics discussed in this episode, we recommend our episodes on the history of the 504 occupation, on the court case this year on gender dysphoria as a qualifying impairment under the ADA, and our recent discussion with Jasbir Puar.

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We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022.

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After this episode first aired, we adapted it into a piece for The New Inquiry called “The Year the Pandemic ‘Ended.’” Find Part One (of three) here: https://thenewinquiry.com/the-year-the-pandemic-ended-part-1/

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We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years.

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Bea and Phil speak with legal historian Karen Tani about an under-scrutinized case on the Supreme Court's docket this term, Health and Hospital Corp v. Talevski, which could have profound effects on the entire US welfare state.

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Find the Marta Russell symposium we co-organized with Karen here: https://lpeproject.org/symposia/capitalism-disability/

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We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022.

Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor.

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Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091

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Bea talks to Amy Kapczynski about the political economy of drug development and how, from HIV/AIDS to covid, intellectual property laws support and make possible big pharma's business model at the expense of global public health.

Amy Kapczynski is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, co-director of the Law and Political Economy Project and cofounder of the Law and Political Economy blog.

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Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about how mass incarceration has driven the spread of the pandemic, how prisons and other carceral sites have used covid as an excuse to grow more punitive, and why we need to renew calls from early in the pandemic to “free them all for public health.”

You can preorder Dan’s forthcoming book, “Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey”

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360

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Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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