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Medicine production in an anarchist society (slrpnk.net)

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Hello all, I am wondering can you point me to reading material or share ideas on how manifacure of medicine(and other things currently requiring complex supply chains) can be achieved in anarchist society?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I recommend Ivan Illich's "Medical Nemesis." He says something like: "we need to recover community self-care to avoid medical iatrogenesis and we need to eliminate the root cause of the social, economic, hygienic, etc., aspects that make our bodies and minds sick"