Dying from Improvement by Sherene Razack PAPERBACK 9781442628915

Dying from Improvement\nby Sherene Razack\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Sherene Razack\nTitle: Dying from Improvement\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Penology and punishment\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781442628915\nISBN-10: 144262891X\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nNo matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that there are no villains here, only inevitable casualties of Indigenous life.\nBut what about a sixty-seven-year-old man who dies in a hospital in .