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The Viral Underclass
- The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
- Narrated by: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl, Steven W. Thrasher
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
This program is read by the author with a foreword written and read by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl.
"An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world."
—Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society.
Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone.
Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the listener with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.
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- 12-01-23
Fascinating case studies with strong narration
Highly recommend this for anyone interested in public health issues and the race, class, and gender dynamics that cause them and complicate them.
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