User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
| Author | Anthony Ryan Hatch |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
Publication date | 2019 |
| Pages | 184 pages |
| ISBN | 1517907438 |
| OCLC | 1097608624 |
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America is a nonfiction book by Wesleyan University associate professor, Anthony Ryan Hatch, in the Science in Society program.[1] that was published in 2019 by the University of Minnesota Press.[2]
Summary[edit]
Hatch investigates the use of powerful psychotropic—mind-altering substances on large-scale human populations who are part of the American "carceral state", including people in jails and prisons, "foster homes, immigrant detention centres, nursing homes and the military."[3] Hatch called the public policy in the 1990s, that led United States to give "large quantities" of drugs to "captive Americans" who are residents in state-managed institutions "the most unscientific natural experiment in the history of biomedicine."[1]
The United States carceral state policy called Technocorrections, refers to "strategically applying new technologies in the effort to reduce the costs of mass incarceration and minimise the risks that prisoners pose to society".Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
A review in the LSE Review of Books, explores the use of psychotropic drugs as part of the US carceral state, focusing not only on jails and prisons, but also foster homes, immigrant detention centres, nursing homes and the military. This is a taut and nimble study, writes Alessandro Ford, that allows the silence around this issue to speak volumes. [3]
Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present called the book a "powerful indictment of imposing psychotropics" in state-managed institutions. Washington said that Hatch combined "novel insights" that were "supported by rigorous scholarship with fresh, accessible writing," and that he built an "unimpugnable case that unveils a deeply troubling pattern and also affords us the chance to end it."[4]
Lisa Guenther, the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives, called it a "ground-breaking study of psychiatric violence in U.S. prisons."[4] Guenther said that without this "normalized practice of prison management" "mass incarceration would be impossible to sustain."[4] OCLC tags Corrections, United States, Mental illness Treatment, Moral and ethical aspects, Mentally ill prisoners, Prisoners, Health and hygiene, Psychotropic drugs.
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References[edit]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
insidehighered_McLemee_20190524was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hatch, Anthony Ryan (2019). Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 184 pages. ISBN 1517907438. OCLC 1097608624.
- ^ a b Ford, Alessandro (January 8, 2020). "Book Review: Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America by Anthony Ryan Hatch". LSE Review of Books. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Reviews: Silent Cells". University of Minnesota Press. 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
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