​The Commons of Care: A New Paradigm for Human Health (and Agriculture)

​Current social norms enforce the subtle yet potent message that at any given time, we are either burdening someone else, or they are a burden to us. Profit-based society capitalizes on these unconscious assumptions to create elaborate and expensive ways of providing care. Yet, historically, cultures have provided care within the context of community and family structures, without any need for monetary exchange. Didi Pershouse, author of The Ecology of Care, will offer examples of successful models of care that work outside of the established health-care system to help us envision a fully functional, robust, and sustainable “commons of care.”