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Title: Excited Delirium
Condition: New
Author: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subtitle: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
EAN: 9781478026327
ISBN: 9781478026327
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 08/06/2024
Language: English
Item Height: 229mm
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, History
Description: In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De JesÚs examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-LatinÉ religions. Beliso-De JesÚs demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 590g
Release Year: 2024
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