Money: The Unheard Story

In this solo episode of the MISM podcast, I pick up where I left off in the first post in this series: Defense Against Kleptocracy. Continuing this exploration at the intersection of health and wealth, I focus on the ideology of clinicism.

Clinicism is the reduction of health to individualistic biomedical paradigms that overemphasize clinical perspectives and interventions while normalizing existing social conditions and neglecting to prioritize preventive policies that target other key drivers of health and disease.

As you can see from the list of my sources in Part 1, future episodes of this podcast will focus on the ideology of salve lucrum (Hail Profit), money as violence, the thermodynamics of wealth, and the most influential super-spreaders of misconceptions about health and wealth. To receive my podcast episodes by email, subscribe to MISM for free.

Show Notes

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Highlights

1. Introduction - Protecting health from lethal misconceptions in both mainstream and alternative medicine.

2. Definition - Clinicism as a context-specific expression of second-order ignorance.

3. Money as Medicine (MaM) - The evidence for the therapeutic effects of economic remedies.

4. Responding to Resistance - Two reading recommendations and a principle of self-discipline.

5. The Socratic Psychiatrist - Two essays by Dr. Martin Greenwald.

Cited Sources

1. Money as Medicine — Clinicism, Cash Transfers, and the Political–Economic Determinants of Health (The New England Journal of Medicine, 4/10/2024)

2. Second-Order Ignorance: Learning to See the Problem (MISM, 7/07/2024)

3. Politics in the Clinic (Socratic Psychiatrist, 7/7/2024)

4. A Reflection on Humility (Socratic Psychiatrist, 3/12/2024)

Further Reading

1. Is Money the Root of All Evil (Nevermore Media, 3/26/2024)

2. What Money Asks of Us (The Alchemy of Money, 10/10/2024) - Note that this one is paywalled, offering only a free preview of the three money realities: lack, affluence and abundance.

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