Christopher Perreira

Archiving Medical Violence

Consent and the Carceral State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781517907129
• ISBN-10: 1517907128
• Artikelnr.: 68316459

Autorenporträt

Christopher Perreira is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Archiving Medical Consent
1. Medical Violence, Archival Fictions
2. Memory, Memoir, and the Carville Leprosarium
3. Imagining Medical Archives at Olive View
Epilogue: Futures of Medical Violence
Notes
Index