Book ID: CBB590753543

Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease (2024)

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Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M. (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Aragona, Massimiliano
Bourke, Joanna
Cooper, Rachel
Farber, Paul Lawrence
Fraser, Jennifer
Lorusso, Lorenzo
Journals
History of Psychiatry
History of the Human Sciences
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Science as Culture
Science in Context
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Éditions Autrement
Oxford University Press
Rutgers University Press
The New Press
University of Michigan Press
Concepts
Medicine and race
Racism
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Violence
Nosology; classification of diseases
People
Hempel, Carl G.
Gandini, Carlo (1705-1788)
Ghisi, Martino
Parolinus, Franciscus Roncalli (1692-1763)
Cogrossi, Carlo Francesco (1682-1769)
Louis Jolyon West
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
India
France
Italy
Manitoba (Canada)
Institutions
University of California
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS)
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