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We're off this week, so for today's episode we've curated a selection of three of our favorite conversations about Emily Oster, showing the arc of her influence over the school reopening debate from 2020 onward.

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

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Death Panel 354 Teaser - Emily Oster, This Is Your Life (07/04/22)

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Teaser - Emily Oster, This Is Your Life (07/04/22)

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.

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Death Panel Episode 370 The Long Welfare State w/ Abby Cartus (09/01/22)

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

We 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.

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TRANSCRIPT: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/social-determinants-of-health

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Death Panel Episode 365 Unlocked - Social Determinants of Health

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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.

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Death Panel 407 Teaser - Following the Zients (01/30/23)

Teaser - Following the Zients (01/30/23)

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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 and NGO work shapes the political economy of health.

Adia Benton is a cultural anthropologist who studies global health, biomedicine, and the political economy of humanitarianism. She is a Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University and the author of HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone.

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Death Panel 413 Neoliberalism and Public Health w/ Adia Benton (Unlocked)

Neoliberalism and Public Health w/ Adia Benton (Unlocked)

Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week.

In this session, "Health and Capital (Intro)," Beatrice and Artie discuss some ways to think about the intersection of healthcare, disability, and left politics, and introduce each of the rest of the sessions.

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2023 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-health-and-capital

Timecodes:

0:00 - Introduction to session recordings and thanks from the Panel

4:50 - Session recording begins

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DP x S23: Health and Capital (Session 1)

Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week.

In this session, "How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19," Artie, Abby, and Nate Holdren discuss Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder,” the structural forces within capitalism that abandon populations to injury, debility, and premature death, and how social murder is a key component of capitalism, not merely a side effect.

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2023 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-how-capitalism-kills-covid-and-social-murder

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DP x S23: How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19 (Session 2)

As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on March 13th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.

Original description: 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.

If you missed our last episode with Mikey and Monica, "Institutional Antifatness" from February, you can find it here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/institutional-antifatness-w-marquisele-mercedes-monica-kriete-020223

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Death Panel Best of 2023: Ozempic w/ Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete

Best of 2023: Ozempic w/ Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete

Epidemiologist and writer Abby Cartus joins me in this interview to explore a fascinating set of questions: What does it mean for public health to fail? What does it mean for it to succeed?

Within the context of the ongoing pandemic, we often hear, or ourselves may make, the refrain that "public health has failed us." This may be true, but it's quite a bit more than failure we must address. Public health is more, possibly less, but certainly different, than it purports and narrativizes itself to be. The rapid shifts in social relations with the onset of the pandemic almost five years ago, and with other looming, percolating crises gathering on the horizons, wondering about not only how public health could seemingly fail, but theoretically succeed, is a fundamentally generative discussion.

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373 Part One / Covid As Political Defeat / Abby Cartus

Epidemiologist and writer Abby Cartus returns to continue our discussion about the so-called successes and failures of public health, particularly as it relates to the ongoing pandemic. 

In this interview, I asked Abby to clarify the kinds of data that are collected—mainly from wastewater sites—and how that data is modeled and presented at this phase of the pandemic. How does this impose limitations on our view of the current rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the US population? After establishing what can be understood, and not understood, from wastewater data, I asked Abby to raise her critique of how this data is being modeled and presented by the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, a popular and well regarded resource often cited by covid cautious and public health advocacy individuals and groups, and what this indicates about not only where we are at this phase of the pandemic, but how data and statistics are underlaid by ideological assumptions that deserve examination.

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373 Part Two / Covid As Political Defeat / Abby Cartus

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