Mordecai Cohen Ettinger - Understanding the Medical Industrial Complex

The Queer Body

The Health Justice Commons' Founding Director, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger (they/them), joins me on this podcast episode to discuss the meaning of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). The Health Justice Commons offers a biannual Political Education Series about the MIC so we can learn and build our community of visionary resistance together. The curriculum digs deep to expose the historic roots of the MIC, supporting participants to understand the interconnections of healthcare institutions with governmental bodies, Big Pharma, health insurers, and agribusinesses, and providing a foundation to understand and critique the role of systemic racism, sexism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism within the MIC.

Mordecai has nearly 30 years experience as a multi-sector social justice activist and organizer, holistic healer, radical scholar, and educator. In addition to being the Founding Director of the Health Justice Commons, they also co-founded the TGI Justice Project, served as an Interim Co-Director at Justice Now, and as Interim Executive Director at Caduceus Outreach Services, a radical mental health organization. They are adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Their field is critical science, technology, and medicine studies. Mordecai’s research spans environmental health and toxicology, to the workings of the Medical Industrial Complex, to the neurobiology of the social nervous system, and its implications with regard to collective and historical trauma, healing, resilience and social change.

The next cycle of the HJC's Pol Ed Series starts Sept. 29th, 2022! You can learn more about it and enroll today by visiting their website:

https://www.healthjusticecommons.org/upcoming-events

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