@article{ref1,
title="Timely deaths: medicalizing the deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody",
journal="Law, culture and the humanities",
year="2013",
author="Razack, Sherene H.",
volume="9",
number="2",
pages="352-374",
abstract="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 persistently &quot;medicalized&quot; - that is, attributed to the medical condition of alcoholism, with the inevitable consequence that they cannot be connected to the violence of an ongoing colonialism. Aboriginal death becomes a timely rather than untimely death, the only thing we can expect from a disappearing race.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1743-8721",
doi="10.1177/1743872111407022",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872111407022"
}