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The economic regime of warehoused care exploits not only the labor of those who provide care, it exploits the bodies of those who need care, transforming them from people into commodities.
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
Among the subfields of history that treat the development of capitalism and the place of philanthropy within it, business history is, I think, the area that deserves most attention because it directly addresses the issues of wealth generation. Business historians should therefore have much to say about the unexpected ways in which capitalists fund parallel organizations devoted to reinvesting this wealth. The large foundation is as much a managerial creation as the investment fund.
Philanthropy in Democratic Societies
Rob Reich;Lucy Bernholz;Chiara Cordelli
It is common to suppose that when there is no open public conflict about the risks of some technology, chemical or the like, this is evidence of positive public acceptance of the risks, or of the full social package of risk-technology-institutions. When public opposition emerges into political form, the questions are usually posed in terms of the factors which turned the public negative in its attitudes.
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