Exclusionary Solidarity In Global Health Justice

Send us Fan MailWe talk with Peter West-Oram about his new book - Justice, Solidarity and Global Health: From Globalisation to Collaboration - and discuss why solidarity is not automatically virtuous and how it can contribute to exclusion, coercion, and violence. We use COVID-19, vaccine conflict, and global injustice to ask what a minimal pro-social solidarity looks like and who gets counted inside the circle of moral concern. • solidarity as morally neutral rather than inherently good • exclusionary solidarity and the “lone wolf” story that hides communities • a minimal threshold for getting along in pluralist society • fat positivity as a case of pro-social community under outside hostility • three antisocial solidarities: hostility, mistaken, non-malicious exclusion • vaccine hesitancy as solidarity with harmful external effects • vaccine hoarding and partial policy choices that damage global health equity • mandates, reactance, and why trust building is long-term work • relational health beyond infection: infrastructure, climate change, and antimicrobial resistance • Gaza, “who counts,” and what solidarity demands when people are denied moral standing Don't forget to like and subscribe, folks. Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for "mailbag episodes" [email protected]