SoS 148- The health effects of debt & neoliberalism with Dr. Elizabeth Sweet

On our last episode for 2021, Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Elizabeth Sweet who is a biocultural anthropologist and social epidemiologist who works as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Massachusetts. She is currently studying the health consequences of neoliberalism, namely the effects of debt. You can find out more about the Price of Debt study here: https://www.umb.edu/debtstudy/research_team and contact her at [email protected]. Her papers mentioned in the show: Social Inequalities, Debt, and Health in the United States: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000112 “Like you failed at life”: Debt, Health, and Neoliberal Subjectivity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953618303745 Suggested reads by the late Dr. David Graeber: Debt: The First Five Thousand Years: https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/debt/ Bullshit Jobs: https://bookshop.org/books/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-9781508264668/9781501143335 The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:[email protected], Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: [email protected], Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra