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- Title
MAKING UP EXCITED DELIRIUM.
- Authors
ANAÏS, SEANTEL
- Abstract
This article examines the emergence of a medical condition increasingly cited as a cause of death in fatality inquiries in Canada: excited delirium. Beyond concerns arising from the association between excited delirium and police use of electrical weapons known as Tasers, one common concern about the medical condition is whether or not it is "real." Bypassing strictly realist or purely constructivist accounts, this article uses the conceptual language of historical ontology and science and technology studies to investigate how excited delirium is enacted in medico-legal sites. Contributing to sociologies of death and dying and category formation, it attends to the textually mediated practices of legal and medical experts in the United States and Canada that enact excited delirium as a coherent medical condition.
- Subjects
EXCITED delirium syndrome; STUN guns; DEATH; ONTOLOGY; AMERICAN College of Emergency Physicians
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29173/cjs18502