healthcare

Work or Die? ‘Death Panel’ Podcasters Propose ‘Health Communism’

Work or Die? ‘Death Panel’ Podcasters Propose ‘Health Communism’

Death Panel podcasters and Health Communism authors argue that the unemployed, maligned, “burdens” of the state are essential to capitalism’s ill-gotten profit.

AIDS Play ‘The Normal Heart’ Is a Guide During COVID-19 and Political Indifference

AIDS Play ‘The Normal Heart’ Is a Guide During COVID-19 and Political Indifference

When national leadership isn't addressing a pandemic as it should, Larry Kramer, as playwright and activist, pens the only viable response: "Everyone's entitled to good medical care. If you're not getting it, you've got to fight for it."

Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer

Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer

Cookbooks are rarely read as political or even narrative texts. However, alongside the recipes and lists of ingredients is often rich information about the ideologies and social structures that the foods are consumed within.

‘How to Survive a Plague’: Critical Lessons for a New Era

Janet Jackson, Good Times, and the Current Healthcare Debate