Incarceration and Social Death — Restoring Humanity in the Clinical Encounter
- 21 January 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 384 (3), 201-203
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp2023874
Abstract
Hospitals may intersect with the carceral system and participate in processes of “social death,” in which a person is treated as a nonperson and discounted in social terms. But the clinical encounter can resist rather than reinforce the process of social death.Keywords
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