Archiving medical violence: consent and the carceral state

"Interrogating the notions of national and scientific progress, Archiving Medical Violence shows how such violence is both an engine of medical progress and, more broadly, the production of empire. Christopher Perreira centers how the medical archive is produced, remembered, and contested withi...

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Main Author: Perreira, Christopher 1976- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis London University of Minnesota Press [2023]
In:Year: 2023
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
United States > Public Health Service > Records and correspondence
Medical archives > Social aspects > United States
Hospital records > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
Racism in medicine > United States > History > Sources
Medical Ethics > United States > History > Sources
Violence in hospitals > United States > History > Sources
Medizin > Forschung > Experiment > Menschenversuch > Strafgefangener > Geschichte
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1860433308
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Summary:"Interrogating the notions of national and scientific progress, Archiving Medical Violence shows how such violence is both an engine of medical progress and, more broadly, the production of empire. Christopher Perreira centers how the medical archive is produced, remembered, and contested within cultural production and critical memory, arguing that it is in the contradictions of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that we find how medical violence is narrated as a public good"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 170 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781517907129
9781517907112