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Author Adler-Bolton, Beatrice, author.

Title Health communism : a surplus manifesto / Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
Edition [First edition]
Published [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file (07 hr., 54 min.))
Summary A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast Death Panel Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as "surplus," regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the healthy from the surplus, the worker from the "unfit" to work, the authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark whole populations for extraction by the industries that have emerged to manage and contain this "surplus" population. Health Communism then looks to the grave threat capital poses to global public health, and at the rare movements around the world that have successfully challenged the extractive economy of health. Ultimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. To do this will require a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the surplus, built on an understanding that we must not base the value of human life on one's willingness or ability to be productive within the current political economy. Capital, it turns out, only fears health
Performer Read by Sarah Welborn
Notes Online resource; title from title details screen (O'Reilly, viewed October 25, 2022)
Subject Communism.
Public health.
public health.
Communism
Public health
Genre/Form Audiobooks
Audiobooks.
Livres audio.
Form Streaming audio
Author Vierkant, Artie, author.
Welborn, Sarah, narrator
ISBN 9798765066898