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Beatrice speaks with Sophie Lewis about working toward the de-privatization of care, what people who dismiss "family abolition" miss about the concept by not engaging with it, Emily Oster's book "The Family Firm," and more.

Find Sophie's new book Abolish the Family here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4075-abolish-the-family

Find Bea and Artie's new book Health Communism here: https://tinyurl.com/healthcommunism

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Health Communism is out this week! Find available copies here: https://tinyurl.com/healthcommunism

Beatrice and Artie talk about their new book Health Communism: why they wrote it, how they hope it can be used, and why in the end, health is such a fundamentally important site of political struggle. We also read two big excerpts from the chapter "SURPLUS."

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Health Communism is out TOMORROW—this Tuesday, October 18th! If you haven't preordered a copy, please do so here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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.

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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We discuss the meaning and history of "the social determinants of health"—all of the social and political factors that impact individual and population health beyond what healthcare traditionally focuses on—and what becomes possible when we recognize that health is political.

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TRANSCRIPT: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/social-determinants-of-health

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*Note: this episode was released prior to the official announcement that Abby Cartus and Jules Gill-Peterson were joining the Death Panel, as a result in this episode Abby is introduced as a "guest"

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Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about administrative violence, neoliberal co-optation through 'inclusion,' what separates mutual aid from charity, and his book "Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law."

Find Normal Life here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/normal-life-revised

Health Communism is out in just ONE WEEK (October 18th) from Verso Books! Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore about how to understand the concept of "the state," the capitalist state's capacity of organized abandonment, and the extraction of time.

Order her book Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.

TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore

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Seth Prins joins us to discuss his research on the school-to-prison pipeline and the impact of carcerality on schools, public health, and our society.

Seth Prins is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Health Communism is out in just TWO WEEKS (October 18th) from Verso Books! Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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Bea, Artie, and Phil speak with Nate Holdren about how to understand the pandemic response as a site of class struggle, latent imaginaries of the state, and the power dynamics at play in the Biden administration's plans to restructure the CDC.

Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

Read Nate's (and all of our) contributions to the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center's "Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering" series here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/09/19/pandemic-nihilism-social-murder-and-the-banality-of-evil/

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Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss Vinay Prasad's covid advocacy as an archetype for a particular type of interpretation of the politics of health, and why his arguments seem to sometimes work on liberals, "progressives," and even some on the left.

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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Bea, Artie, Phil, and Abby discuss Joe Biden's recent statement that "the pandemic is over," what it means for the US pandemic response, and the many flawed assumptions that have led people to make similar claims in recent weeks.

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