Amid the ongoing pandemic healthcare crisis, this seminar brings together practitioners, scholars and activists to share different stories documenting the importance of collective action, finding workarounds and transgressing received notions when it comes to organize or reorganize healthcare in a perspective of social justice. Speakers will introduce examples from partisan hospitals during WWII and their impact on Yugoslav post-war healthcare, Italian deinstitutionalisation and patient rights movement in the 1970s, and solidarity clinics amid the Greek Debt crisis in the late 2000s.

Schedule:

Wed, Nov 29th, 6 pm
Healthcare as disobedience: Introductions – Valeria Graziano

The Legacies of Basaglian Deinstitutionalisation of Mental Healthcare – Pantxo Ramas

Solidarity Clinics in Greece as infrastructures of commoning – Christos Giovanopoulos

Thu, Nov 30th, 6 pm
”Our Hospital is in the Forest”: Radical Healthcare as Resistance – Sanja Horvatinčić

Medicina Democratica: Giulio Maccacaro and Italian Movements for Patient Rights – Maddalena Fragnito