%0 Journal Article
%T Timely deaths: medicalizing the deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody
%J Law, culture and the humanities
%D 2013
%A Razack, Sherene H.
%V 9
%N 2
%P 352-374
%X 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 "medicalized" - 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>
%G en
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 1743-8721
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872111407022