Excited Delirium. Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease, Paperback/Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of “excited delirium syndrome” in the 1980s, a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities in the United States. Publisher: Duke University Press Author(s): Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus Illustration(s): 2 illustrations Number of pages: 320 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 21 Cover type: Paperback