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Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University London and the author of numerous books including Critique of Security, The Fabrication Of Social Order, and War Power, Police Power.His most recent book, which has just published with Verso, is called The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies and in it he explores the obsession with immunity that underpins the ideology of liberal capitalism.In this discussion he explores how security shapes medicine, the importance of demanding a form of healthcare free from institutions like prisons and the police and what the politics of anti-vaxxers reveals about the contradictions within liberal thought. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/

The Young Lords were a revolutionary group active throughout the 60s and 70s who organized around Puerto Rican liberation, international socialism and the radical expansion of public health. Writer, academic, educator, activist and author Johanna Fernadez, explores their contribution to the politics of health, their critique of the carceral state and why their analysis is still relevant and important today. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/

In this conversation San Francisco based writer and academic Erik Davis explores whether or not the distinction between ‘alternative’ and ‘mainstream’ medicine still exists and if it doesn’t, what the implications might be for public health, political organizing, and our own relationships to healing.  SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/

Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift, discusses how deindustrialization made way for an economy built on a foundation of health care, a sector which currently employs more Americans than any other industry.  SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/

Samples taken from "Crisis In A Crowd" documentary about the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic - https://bit.ly/3ukxhtIGraphics by Ava Gardner Soundtrack by Matthew Browne  SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/