Anna Tarazevich on pexels.com This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health, examining how healthcare in the US has been built on the principle of imposing control over body, mind, and expression. However, that legacy stands alongside another: that of organizers, healers, and care workers reclaiming
Earlier this month, several media articles announced the launch of Love, a new health tech startup. The company claims to “act as a Kickstarter for clinical trials, crowdsourcing ideas and cash to run pharma-grade studies on the health effects of natural products—for instance, the power of turmeric to manage diabetes.” The company, which has already
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Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pexels.com In the United States, worker-owned models of commercial enterprise have been practiced for centuries—and have been codified into law over the last several decades. From the many worker cooperatives documented by Jessica Gordon Nembhard in Collective Courage, such as the Freedom Quilting Bee of Alberta, AL, to the large
“You’re not going to finance the movement with conventional financing.” So noted Clark Arrington, who was inducted last year into the national cooperative hall of fame and is a senior fellow at Seed Commons, a community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports worker co-op development in 30 communities. Arrington’s comment encapsulated a central theme of
