This conversation, part of our Full-Bodied Economics Series in 2024, featured the great work of Physicians for a National Health Plan, Dr. Wendy Dean of the Moral Matters for Medicine podcast and author of If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First, Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal, editor of KFF Health News and author of American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back. and Anitra Hamilton of West Virginia, a nurse, minister, NAACP and Gender Equity advocate, who now serves as WV legislator and minority vice chair of WV's Health & Human Services Committee.

Together, we shared little known ways an economy waged as war has created a ruthless culture of "privatization" and "financialization," indifferent to social outcomes. Its mystification of money, as if money alone creates value, makes a safe climate, good health care, healthy food, and affordable housing more and more difficult for more and more people.

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WHAT IS A ZOOM OF OUR OWN?

This event was recorded live. As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing and reasoning. Our economics is lived in tangible and complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women.

Our Zoom of Own Series brings women (and men!) together to construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” Together, we're flipping the script on a racist, sexist economy.