Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/80295762 Bea speaks with Cassandra Kislenko about ethical and political issues with Canada's expansion of MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) laws and how we should understand them as a handful of U.S. states seek to implement similar laws. Then, we talk about issues with looking to the Canadian healthcare system as a model for socialized medicine in the U.S. Read Cassandra's piece "How Healthcare ...
Mar 21, 2023•8 min
This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea and Jules speak with Vicky Osterweil about the recent open letter to the New York Times critical of apparent bias in paper's reporting on trans people. In the first half, we get into the letter, the coverage that provoked it, and the Times' dismal response to the criticism so far. In the second half, we get into the conceptual problems with the coverage and ...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 57 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/79982109 Bea, Abby, and Jules speak with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about the overwhelming presence of blockbuster drug Ozempic in the media, and how almost every current take on it approaches the drug from a standpoint of unabashed antifatness. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:41, 13 March 2023 🧬
Mar 13, 2023•6 min
Bea speaks with Ellie Murray about why mask mandates work to reduce the impact of the pandemic, why simply "recommending" masking doesn't, and how the results of a study she co-authored directly contradict recently revived media claims that "masks work, but mandates don't." Find Ellie's study in NEJM here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211029 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-co...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/79655098 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how two narratives have recently gained significant traction in mainstream discourse: first, the lab leak theory, by way of vague speculation from government officials; and second, the idea that masking doesn't protect against covid, by way of the much-maligned Cochrane review of masking. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communis...
Mar 07, 2023•3 min
Bea and Abby speak with Kim Garrett about the train derailment in East Palestine as part of the ongoing disaster of industrial capitalism, the environmental impacts of not just industrial accidents but everyday industry, and how our healthcare system fails to address the needs of those put in harm's way. Kim Garrett is an environmental health researcher working at the intersection of environmental toxicology, public health, and environmental justice. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/79282210 Bea and Abby speak with Adia Benton about how neoliberalism constrains what public health interventions are considered possible while simultaneously expanding what political issues can be depoliticized as simply a "public health issue." We also look at some of Adia's statements from early in the pandemic on the role of austerity in shaping the covid response, and discuss how development a...
Feb 28, 2023•6 min
In Part 2 of this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing organizing work, wins and losses they've encountered, and why it's so important for the left to take covid seriously, even as the public health emergency comes to a close. In Part 2, we speak with Becca (beginning at 02:30), Raia Small (beginning at 32:00), and Kelly Hayes (1:01:20). As always, suppo...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Today's patron episode went extra long, so we felt the best thing to do considering the topic was to post the whole first half as today's public "teaser." Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/78966968 Bea and Jules speak with Vicky Osterweil about the recent open letter to the New York Times critical of apparent bias in paper's reporting on trans people. In the first half, we get into the letter, the coverage that provoked it, and th...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr
In this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing organizing work, wins and losses they've encountered, and why it's so important for the left to take covid seriously, even as the public health emergency comes to a close. In Part 1, we speak with Alex (beginning at 03:30), a student organizer at a university in the northeast US, and Reina Sultan (beginning at...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 33 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/78645421 Bea, Artie, and Phil look at the fallout of the announcement that the public health emergency will end on May 11th, including a number of lines the Biden administration has used to defend the move that don't add up, and contention over what is and isn't part of the emergency declaration. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:13:45, 13 February...
Feb 14, 2023•7 min
We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years. This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted December 19th 2022. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): ww...
Feb 09, 2023•2 hr 31 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/78308989 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 ...
Feb 07, 2023•5 min
Bea speaks with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about how medicalized antifatness operates in health policy and public health, and discuss a fat liberationist critique of the controversial new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch Marquisele (Mikey) Mer...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 52 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77981511 Bea, Artie, and Abby reflect on Jeff Zients’s role as coronavirus response coordinator in 2021 and the beginning of 2022, and why his appointment as Biden’s next chief of staff is such a bad idea. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:14:15, 30 January 2023 🧬
Jan 31, 2023•6 min
This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths. Read Bea and Artie's piece in Teen Vogue, "Wh...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Bea speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe about lessons we can draw from linking disability justice with abolition, the threat posed by moves like California's CARE courts and Eric Adams's involuntary hospitalization policies, and revisit her 2020 book Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. Find Liat's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/decarcerating-disability Episode Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/disability-and-abolition-w-liat-ben-moshe...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77637289 Bea speaks with Dan Berger about his new book Stayed On Freedom, the importance of resisting overly streamlined histories of political movements, and the ongoingness and intergenerational nature of political struggle. Dan's book, Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey, is out this week from Basic Books: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/...
Jan 24, 2023•4 min
XBB.1.5, aka “Kraken,” may be the latest variant causing a spike in cases, but it isn’t the only one driving spread, nor the only one to watch out for. Bea speaks with evolutionary biologist T Ryan Gregory about how to make sense of the increasingly large pool of new covid variants, what we can do to stop them, and why he and his colleagues suggested the name “Kraken” in the first place. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.vers...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 34 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77335507 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communis...
Jan 16, 2023•7 min
Bea, Jules, and Abby discuss the complicated history of DIY healthcare and DIY transition as a story of class struggle, and how this history can complicate how we talk about physician expertise, abortion, single payer, and more. Read Jules piece on this in the Baffler, "Doctors Who?" here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/doctors-who-gill-peterson As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77016924 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how China's zero-covid policy has been used as a political foil over the course of the pandemic and how, after years of dismissal, the moment China abandoned it those very same people began pointing to transmission in China as the impending source of a deadly new variant. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:12:29...
Jan 10, 2023•8 min
We discuss a recent piece in the New Yorker called "The Case for Masking Forever" which presents itself as a profile of the group The People's CDC but instead, we argue, is a veritable hit piece on the idea of covid advocacy itself. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/76685724 Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' new initiative to broadly expanded involuntary hospitalization law and policy in New York, and the dark history of psychiatric institutionalization the plan appears to want to bring back. Health Communism is still 40% off for one more day (Monday January 2nd): www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:39:45, 2 January 2023 🧬
Jan 03, 2023•8 min
This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim. Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Health Communi...
Dec 29, 2022•2 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76391071 Bea speaks with Doron Dorfman about how social and political narratives of disabled people as "fakers" cheating the welfare system ultimately come to influence how disability is defined in law and policy. For more on some of the topics discussed in this episode, we recommend our episodes on the history of the 504 occupation, on the court case this year on gender dysphoria as a qua...
Dec 27, 2022•5 min
We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022. Find the companion episode to this one, “How Liberals Killed Masking,” here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-liberals-12-76127094 This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. After this episode first aired, we adapted it into a piece for The New Inquiry called “The Year the Pan...
Dec 22, 2022•3 hr 5 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/76127094 We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 2:33:45, 19 December 2022 🧬
Dec 20, 2022•9 min
Bea and Phil speak with legal historian Karen Tani about an under-scrutinized case on the Supreme Court's docket this term, Health and Hospital Corp v. Talevski, which could have profound effects on the entire US welfare state. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Get Health Communism here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find the Marta Russell symposium we co-organized with Karen here: https://lpeproject.org/symposia/capitalism-disability/ Death...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 46 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75894329 We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 3:10:29, 13 December 2022 🧬
Dec 14, 2022•17 min
