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Department of Global Health & Social Medicine Lecturer in Health Inequalities (Education) . kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109326-lectur…

📢Job Ad: Come join our amazing Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (@GHSMatKCL) at King's College London (@KingsCollegeLon) as Lecturer in Health Inequalities (Education). kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109326-lectur…

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My department (@GHSMatKCL) is hiring a Lecturer in Critical Global Health. For more details and the job description, click the link below. kcl.ac.uk/jobs/095365-lectur…

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Discover Sally Cross's book review of Hannah Proctors, "Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat." To read further about the emotional fatigue of political struggle, click the link below: somatosphere.net/book-review…

Explore Jack Jiang's new article, "Vasectomy, Futures, and Finitude," which discusses anti-natalism and its presence within India. Click the link below 🠟 somatosphere.net/vasectomy-f…

“AI Job Displacement: Perspectives on the Future of Work From Beneath the Silicon Ceiling” – Explore Valerie Black’s in-depth analysis of AI’s impact on mental health care in Silicon Valley. somatosphere.net/ai-job-disp…

Discover Frédéric Keck's book review of James Bridle’s "Ways of Being: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence" somatosphere.net/book-review… @jamesbridle @KeckFrederic

Call for Papers: “The Biopolitics of Global Health after COVID-19” Doctoral students from around the globe are welcome to submit a 500-word abstract about one of the two themes ahead of the deadline on the 31st of August 2024. Find out more 🠋 docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Eugene Raikhel in conversation with Dorte Bemme: Reflections on the first 15 years of Somatosphere somatosphere.net/somatospher…

When you clumsily try to verbalize your thoughts for years and suddenly come across a thinker who has said all the same and more, and mainly much better, already in May 2020. I am both bemused and delighted 😜 Yet again the proof that more multi- and interdisciplinarity would be tremendously useful. Who would have thought that medical anthropology and communist history have so much in common? Truly brilliant stuff. @ccaduff "This is not the “first modern pandemic,” as Bill Gates suggested, but the second neoliberal pandemic, the first one being HIV/AIDS under Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s. It’s a neoliberal pandemic because you can see that in the most neoliberalized countries in the world, the United States and the United Kingdom, significantly more people have died due to COVID-19. And it’s precisely due to the kind of fragile health-care infrastructures and sidelining of public health that neoliberal policies have created. Italy’s northern regions is another case in point, in addition to Brazil. Bolsonaro has made it very clear that he cares about power, but not about the pandemic. It’s also a neoliberal pandemic because of precisely what you were saying: because of the idea that citizens need to be responsible; it’s your duty to protect yourself and society at large; it’s not the state’s duty to provide protection. Suddenly, citizens were asked to stay at home and protect the health-care system (the NHS in the United Kingdom). It wasn’t the health-care system that’s protecting citizens. This just shows how fragility is being normalized, how negative effects are redistributed to the margins, how accountability is displaced and deferred, and how a logic of public sacrifice is mobilized in a nationalistic discourse. The kind of responsabilization that’s been at the center of neoliberal policies for the last two decades has been very strong. Neoliberal defunding made health-care systems so fragile that citizens now need to protect it from falling apart during a pandemic. And all of this is accompanied by nationalist sentiments with people engaging in symbolic clapping to support “corona warriors.” The aim of all of this is to obscure political questions about structural vulnerability and democratic accountability. The idea of the dangerous virus as an external biological threat is politically very useful. ... The lockdown is a political mechanism for the redistribution of negative effects. It moves negative effects away from spaces of public attention to spaces where those effects are less visible. This is how the state reclaims its legitimacy and escapes accountability."

Excited to have @ccaduff join us for a Workshop on locating Stigma based on his exciting fieldwork in Mumbai supported by @columbiacss. Please join us at 12:30 pm, Center for Science and Society Conference Room (Fayerweather Hall, History Department, Room 511).

The workshop is on 26th Marc, 12:30 pm, Fayerweather Hall, History Department, Room 511).

Please join if you’re interested and in NY

In our most recent book forum, five scholars engage with Hannah Zeavin and Jeremy Greene’s recent books on telehealth and telemedicine, providing inspiring analyses of the potentials and limitations of electronic technologies in medicine and healthcare. somatosphere.net/