TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Timely deaths: medicalizing the deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody
JO  - Law, culture and the humanities
A1  - Razack, Sherene H.
SP  - 352
EP  - 374
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1743-8721
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872111407022
ID  - ref1
ER  -