Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto

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Health communism" (the title of a planned Verso book) cannot mean anything else but the dictatorship of the medical doctors' class. However, this book is very academic and requires a good working knowledge of political theory and how that is applied in policy. This book shares the impressive truth that we are all surplus in the political economy of health, whether we are presently 'healthy' or 'sick.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).Only as recently as the mid-1990s, with the ratification of the TRIPS agreement, did a formal mechanism come into place whereby an international pharmaceutical company could protest drug production or development around the world and expect to see swift political, military, or economic action by the US and other imperial WTO members against the “offending” state … [and] … produced a “persistent threat of unilateral retaliation” for states that would ignore or reject international corporations’ patent rights. Com que escriuré una ressenya llarga més endavant de moment només dir que us el recomano molt i un petonet.

Here is deep wisdom to arm a struggle towards forms of human embodiment as yet undreamed-of; inspiration for a million insurgencies of communist health. The part that hit the least for me was the history of SPK - because while the theory is solid and so recognizably true, everyone quoted from and involved with SPK just seemed annoying and/or unhinged, but that's how I tend to feel about most super lefty ~praxis groups~ lol. Beatrice Adler-Bolton and her co-author Artie Vierkant claim in the last two chapters of "Health Communism" that they have dedicated thepr book to the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK). Ultimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. In Health Communism, [Adler-Bolton and Vierkant] show how members of the 'unproductive' surplus class are cast as burdens even as health capitalism sets up entire cottage industries (e.

Despite how long this review is, I'm still only touching on a modicum of all 'Health Communism''s greatness.