The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk fests, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come
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The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk fests, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come find our tables at these gatherings and say hello. Follow us on Twitter & Instagram to learn more.
MICE Massachusets Independent Comics Expo in Boston, MA on September 30 and October 1
Brooklyn Book Festival – Kids Book Fair in Brooklyn, NY on September 30
Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, NY on October 1
Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair in Oakland, CA on October 1
Maximum Ska and Punk Fest in Modesto, CA on October 7
Asbury Park Punk Rock Flea Market in Asbury Park, NJ on October 8
Twin Cities Book Fest in Minneapolis, MN on October 14
Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on Oct0ber 20 to 22
Crash Fest in Portland, OR on October 20 and 21
Northwest Teaching for Social Justice NWTSJ in Portland, OR on October 21 and 22
Boston Hassle Flea Market in Boston, MA on October 22
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Portland, OR on October 26 to 29
Portland Book Festival in Portland, OR on November 4
Brooklyn Folk Festival in Brooklyn, NY on November 10 to 12
Reno Punk Rock Flea Market in Reno, NV on November 11 and 12
Boston Anarchist Book Fair in Boston, MA on November 11 and 12
American Society of Criminology in Philadelphia, PA from November 15 to 18
Nonfiction Comics Fest in Burlington, VT on November 18
East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest EBABZ in Berkeley, CA on December 2
Philly Zine Fest in Philadelphia, PA on December 2
Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco, CA on December 3
Heart of the Valley Anti-Capitalist Book Fair in Corvallis, OR on January 19 to 22
Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ on March 9 and 10
In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.
Praise
“On Medicine as Colonialism details the sociopolitical realities that undergird health injustice and offers a realistic perspective on achieving health equity.” —Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, Dell Medical School, UT Austin
“A sobering diatribe on health care in America.” —David N. Sundwall, former executive director of the Utah Department of Health
“Michael Fine wins his big-hearted argument that American medicine is colonialism, not just for the poor but for all of us. It is a desecration of our health care system by the same old robber barons. . . . This doctor-activist is pointing us to solutions. Everyone should read it.” —Samuel Shem, author and professor of medical humanities, NYU Medical School
“Fine writes with the eye of both a humanist and a practitioner. . . . His passion for individual lives and concern for the common good is what drives his outrage at what has been wrought.” —Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Fund, from the foreword
About the Author
Michael Fine is a community organizer, family physician, public health official, and public health policy provocateur. He is the author of Health Care Revolt, Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories.
