Canada: Timely Deaths: Medicalizing The Deaths Of Aboriginal People In Police Custody

Canada: Timely Deaths: Medicalizing The Deaths Of Aboriginal People In Police Custody Sherene H. Razack, 2011   This article is part of a larger study of inquests into the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. I suggest that the Aboriginal body is considered to be one that is already dead, and thus a body on whom a full measure of care would be wasted. The inquest becomes a place where this “truth” is established. I explore how the deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody have been...

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