Week 10
locked down in treatment
Key Questions
How do medical institutions police, surveil, and criminalize people? What are the ways in which hospital workers are deputized?
In what ways can public health operate as a method of policing and surveillance? How has public health money been used to increase policing and incarceration?
Required Materials:
Jeanne Flavin and Lynn Paltrow, “‘Do No Harm’ Like You Mean It: Hospital Workers’ Role in the Policing of Pregnant Women”
Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform, “Locked Down in ‘Treatment’”
Trevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, “The Public Health Police”
Anastasia Valeeva and Weihua Li, “How ARPA Turned Into Funding for Police, Prisons, and Courts”
Supplementary Materials:
Treva Lindsey, America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice, “Violability Is a Preexisting Condition: Dying in the Medical Industrial Complex”
Michelle Goodwin, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, “Changing Roles of Doctors and Nurses: Hospital Snitches and Police Informants”
Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, “Health and the Black Fat”
Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, “The War on Drugs and the War on Obesity”
Mia Mingus, “Medical Industrial Complex Visual”
Beth Schwartzapfel, “Guess Who’s Tracking Your Prescription Drugs?”
Mike Ludwig, “The War on Drugs Comes to the Doctor’s Office”
Jennifer Tsai, “Get Armed Police Out of Emergency Rooms”
COVID19 Policing Project, “Unmasked: Impacts of Pandemic Policing”
Julia Marcus, “The Fun Police Should Stand Down”
Toshio Meronek and Erica Meiners, “The Prison-Like Public Hospital Systems Disproportionately Packed With Gay Men”
Laura Thompson, “The War on Trans Kids Is Coming for Dr. Izzy Lowell”
Jessica Winters, “The Dobbs Decision Has Unleashed Legal Chaos for Doctors and Patients”
Cecilia Nowell, “The Long, Scary History of Doctors Reporting Pregnant People to the Cops”
Kylie Cheung, “Most People Criminalized for Inducing Abortion Are Turned in by Doctors, Not Internet Activity”
Tina Vásquez, “How Misinformation About Medical Reporting Requirements Fueled Lizelle Herrera’s Criminalization for Abortion”
Lauren Gill, “Easy Money: How Counties Are Funneling Covid Relief Funds Into New Jails”