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Teaser - Invisible Institutions w/ Megan Linton (08/29/22) Aug 30, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/71217378 Beatrice speaks to Megan Linton about the past and present of institutionalization in Canada, the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the population in long term care and nursing homes, Canada's medical assistance in dying program, and Megan's documentary podcast series Invisible Institutions, which just wrapped its first season. Megan Q. Linton is a writer, researcher and doctoral student who studies and challenges the political economy of institutionalization in Canada, and the producer, writer, and host of the documentary podcast series “Invisible Institutions.” 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 1:33:29, 29 August 2022 🧬

Elite Capture w/ Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (08/25/22) Aug 25, 2022

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Beatrice and Phil speak with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò about the politics of "getting a seat at the table" and his book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, and the author of the books “Reconsidering Reparations” and “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”. Find Olúfẹ́mi's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture 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 - Public Health and Palestine w/ Danya Qato (08/22/22) Aug 23, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/70892312 Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of health in Palestine, and how to understand the intersection of the pandemic and colonial occupation. Danya Qato is an associate professor of epidemiology and health services research based in Baltimore, Maryland. 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 1:31:46, 22 August 2022 🧬

Who Has the Tools? w/ Justin Feldman (08/18/22) Aug 17, 2022

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Justin Feldman joins us to talk through the latest downgrade to the CDC's covid guidelines and Ashish Jha's statement this week that the Biden administration is aiming for covid vaccines and therapeutics to be kicked to the private market starting in the fall. 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 episode transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/who-has-the-tools-with-justin-feldman

Teaser - Social Determinants of Health w/ Abby Cartus (08/15/22) Aug 16, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/70569938 Abby Cartus joins us to 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. 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 1:13:38, 15 August 2022 🧬

Inflation Reduction Facts w/ Nathan Tankus (08/11/22) Aug 11, 2022

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Nathan Tankus joins us to talk about inflation: what is it, what are the issues with how we measure it, and why do mainstream economists think austerity measures are the only way to tackle it? We also briefly discuss the Inflation Reduction Act. Subscribe to Nathan's newsletter at crisesnotes.com 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 - Against Forced Life w/ Sophie Lewis (08/08/2022) Aug 09, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/70203869 Bea and Artie speak with Sophie Lewis about their recent writing on the post-Roe abortion bans and reproduction as labor. Pre-order Sophie's forthcoming book "Abolish the Family" here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4075-abolish-the-family 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 1:10:48, 08 August 2022 🧬

Standards of Care w/ Beans Velocci (08/04/22) Aug 04, 2022

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We talk to Beans Velocci about the early history of medicalized transition in the US, how the earliest clinical guidelines were largely written with physician indemnity in mind, and the harms of the perpetual myth that trans and nonbinary people are a novel phenomenon. Beans Velocci is a historian of sex, science, and classification, and an Assistant Professor in History and Sociology of Science and Core Faculty in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Read Beans' piece, "Standards of Care: Uncertainty and Risk in Harry Benjamin's Transsexual Classifications" in the November 2021 issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly. 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 - Object Lessons (08/01/22) Aug 02, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/69915341 We discuss a new framing in media that everyone has already had covid, including the Wall Street Journal's "Think You've Never Had Covid-19? Think Again" and The Atlantic's "America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins.’" Then we look at what we've learned in recent days about Biden's covid diagnosis and how covid response coordinator Ashish Jha worked to sell it as "a success story." 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 1:04:54, 01 August 2022 🧬

Fact and Fiction in Kids Vaccines w/ Dr. Jonathan Howard (07/28/22) Jul 28, 2022

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With pediatric covid vaccination levels stalled and no big programs on the horizon to change that, Bea speaks to Dr. Jonathan Howard about the figures who have stepped in to fill that void with a series of false claims about vaccine side effects in children. Read Dr. Howard's latest piece in Science Based Medicine here: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/framing/ 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 Find the Kaiser Family Foundation report Bea cites in this episode here: "COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Among Children Under 5 Have Peaked and Are Decreasing Just Weeks Into Their Eligibility" https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-vaccination-rates-among-children-under-5-have-peaked-and-are-decreasing-just-weeks-into-their-eligibility/

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