Search Results for excited delirium syndrome

... There is an intricate web surrounding the use of excited delirium syndrome in the legal defense of taser-involved deaths. The chapter exposes Charles Wetli's role as one of the paid experts for Taser International, and it uncovers the collusion between medical examiners, researchers, police...

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.... This chapter exposes the fabricated nature of excited delirium syndrome, its entanglement with the medicalizing of police killings, and how corporate interests drive these practices. Guided by Afro-Latiné religious traditions and decolonial approaches to social scientific knowledge, the author launches...

... A powerful sedative called ketamine can be administered to people suspected of exhibiting excited delirium syndrome. The chapter explores the tragic case of Elijah McClain, a Black youth who was calmly walking home when police unnecessarily detained and restrained him. When paramedics arrived...

... Looking more deeply into the medical rationale behind excited delirium syndrome, the chapter focuses on how other medical examiners like Vincent Di Maio, who cowrote a book on the syndrome, also worked to justify the violence of police restraint asphyxiation. It examines the application...

... Through ethnographic and historical research, the chapter examines two questionable precedents given for excited delirium syndrome. First, the author examines “Bell's mania,” a diagnosis developed during the Mexican American War by psychiatrist Luther Bell, who drugged and experimented...

... The chapter examines the response to George Perry Floyd's 2020 killing and the unsettling utilization of excited delirium syndrome in the defense of the officers involved. This chapter highlights how Floyd's death brought police abolition into mainstream discourse, offering it as an option...

... on the systemic obstacles faced by Black women in attaining justice and equitable treatment. Furthermore, it uncovers how Wetli's flawed argument surrounding the “cocaine-sex deaths” served as a basis for his emerging theory of excited delirium syndrome as a specifically Black illness. medicalizing Black...

... Delving into the troubling story of Charles Wetli, this chapter examines the history of the medical examiner who coined the term excited delirium syndrome . It uncovers Wetli's early career and involvement as a law enforcement “expert” on Afro-Caribbean “cults.” Through meticulous historical...