Capitalism Medicine
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row - a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year - and they're still rising. Case and Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class.
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So many words, so little insight
- By Trebla on 03-22-20
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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The Monster Enters
- COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world. He sets the current crisis in the context of previous viral catastrophes, notably the 1918 influenza disaster that killed at least 40 million people in three months and the avian flu of a decade and a half ago that sounded a tocsin, disastrously ignored by those in power, for today's devastating outbreak.
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The Monster Enters
- COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-06-21
- Language: English
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In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world....
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Necropolis
- Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
- By: Kathryn Olivarius
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans's strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, what Kathryn Olivarius terms "immunocapital." Whereas immunity conferred privilege on whites, it relegated enslaved people to the most grueling labor.
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Necropolis
- Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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The question of health is always in part political. Necropolis shows how powerful nineteenth-century white Orleanians pushed this politics to the extreme. They constructed a society that capitalized mortal risk and equated perceived immunity with creditworthiness and reliability....
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Quick Fixes
- Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
- By: Benjamin Y. Fong
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics—across the board, consumption has shot up in the twenty-first century. At the same time, the United States is home to the largest prison system in the world, justified in part by a now zombified "war" on drugs. How did we get here?
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Excellent
- By M&M on 05-10-24
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Quick Fixes
- Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century.
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Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior
- Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level
- By: Fred Ho
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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When American saxophonist and social activist Fred Ho was diagnosed with stage 3b colo-rectal cancer in 2006 he underwent immediate surgery to remove the tumor and began preparing for chemotherapy. Within days his friends mobilized to arrange grocery deliveries, transport, companionship, and housekeeping duties - they called themselves “Warriors for Fred”. Fred chose to write his astonishing cancer memoir as a diary, acknowledging that all the greatest warriors wrote daily diaries.
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Great story if you are rich.
- By Tigerlily on 04-11-22
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Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior
- Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-01-13
- Language: English
- When American saxophonist and social activist Fred Ho was diagnosed with stage 3b colo-rectal cancer in 2006 he underwent immediate surgery to remove the tumor and began preparing for chemotherapy....
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At What Cost (1st Edition)
- Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health
- By: Nicholas Freudenberg
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
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Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Yet, many Americans don't realize that these choices are illusory at best. The available options in food, healthcare, education, transportation, and even online presence are largely constructed by corporations. At What Cost confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government, family, community, and faith.
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At What Cost (1st Edition)
- Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-27-21
- Language: English
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At What Cost confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government, family, community, and faith....
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