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Hardcover Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease Book

ISBN: 1478026324

ISBN13: 9781478026327

Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed "cult expert" of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called "excited delirium syndrome." Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics...

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