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We talk with Peter West-Oram about his new book - Justice, Solidarity and Global Health: From Globalisation to Collaboration - and discuss why solidarity is not automatically virtuous and how it can contribute to exclusion, coercion, and violence.
We use COVID-19, vaccine conflict, and global injustice to ask what a minimal pro-social solidarity looks like and who gets counted inside the circle of moral concern.
• solidarity as morally neutral rather than inherently good
• exclusionary solidarity and the “lone wolf” story that hides communities
• a minimal threshold for getting along in pluralist society
• fat positivity as a case of pro-social community under outside hostility
• three antisocial solidarities: hostility, mistaken, non-malicious exclusion
• vaccine hesitancy as solidarity with harmful external effects
• vaccine hoarding and partial policy choices that damage global health equity
• mandates, reactance, and why trust building is long-term work
• relational health beyond infection: infrastructure, climate change, and antimicrobial resistance
• Gaza, “who counts,” and what solidarity demands when people are denied moral standing
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