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Teaser - The School to Prison Pipeline w/ Seth Prins (10/03/22) Oct 04, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/72838142 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 Runtime 1:08:14, 3 October 2022 🧬

Pandemic Nihilism and the Banality of Evil w/ Nate Holdren (09/29/22) Sep 29, 2022

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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/ As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - A General Theory of Vinay Prasad (09/26/22) Sep 27, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/72510930 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 Runtime 1:15:52, 26 September 2022 🧬

"The Pandemic Is Over" (09/21/22) Sep 21, 2022

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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. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - Access and Abandonment in the Monkeypox Response w/ Keletso Makofane (09/19/22) Sep 20, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/72205167 Beatrice speaks with epidemiologist and HIV/AIDS researcher Keletso Makofane about state failures in the monkeypox response, efforts to organize around it, and the inside story of what activists were told about why delivering monkeypox vaccines was taking so long vs. the reality. Keletso Makofane is a social network epidemiologist who studies how human relationships shape population health, a Health and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard’s FXB Center, and one of the Principal Investigators of the RESPND-MI (MPX NYC) Study Team. Take the survey Keletso talks about here: https://www.mpxnyc.app/ 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 Runtime 1:16:41, 19 September 2022 🧬

In Taxonomy We Trust (09/15/22) Sep 15, 2022

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After a big announcement, Beatrice, Artie, and Jules Gill-Peterson discuss a recent court ruling that gender dysphoria qualifies for protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the promises and perils of this framework, and the histories of both "gender dysphoria" as a term and the ADA's deliberate exclusion of trans identity from its text. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - You Do You (09/12/22) Sep 13, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/71889859 We discuss the Biden administration's increasingly open embrace of pushing covid vaccines to the private market and how the updated booster campaign is going so far. 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 Runtime 1:02:21, 12 September 2022 🧬

"Feminist Jails" w/ Mon M. and Diana Joy (09/08/22) Sep 08, 2022

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Beatrice speaks to organizers Mon M. and Diana Joy about resisting proposals to open a "feminist jail" in New York, carceral humanism, and the difference between decarceration and abolition. Mon M. is an abolitionist organizer based in New York and the author of a recent op-ed arguing against so-called “humane” jails published in Teen Vogue called: ‘Feminist’ Jail Proposals Contribute to Mass Incarceration.” Diana Joy is a prison industrial complex and coercive psych abolitionist who organizes with Survived and Punished New York. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - Introducing Health Communism (09/05/22) Sep 06, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/71558455 Recorded live as part of the 2022 Socialism Conference, Bea and Artie speak for the first time about some of the contents of their forthcoming book Health Communism, featuring an exclusive excerpt from the book and remastered audio. (This teaser includes only the main talk; the excerpt is a special bonus for patrons). 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 Runtime 1:34:22, 5 September 2022 🧬

The Long Welfare State w/ Abby Cartus (09/01/22) Sep 01, 2022

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Abby Cartus joins us to discuss the Biden administration's two recently released plans on long covid, and the total inadequacy of the US social safety net to catch the many people newly disabled by the pandemic. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

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