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Liberation Medicine in Authoritarian Contexts: The Brutality of U.S. Mass Incarceration

Дата публикации: 08-10-2026 00:00:00

This article engages Führer and Vorhölter’s (2025) reinvigoration of Nancy Scheper–Hughes’s utopian call for liberation medicine in their special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. They offer a practical reconceptualization of liberation medicine as “concrete utopias” in the “medical undercommons”. Inspired by Scheper–Hughes’s humble call for “good-enough” ethnographic engagement in her documentation of a successful solidarity movement of single-mother agricultural laborers in Northeastern Brazil, I highlight ethnographically a (fragile) concrete utopian initiative: a peer-support program for inmates with psychosis spectrum conditions who are swept into the Los Angeles County Jail system’s overcrowded mental health units on a daily basis by routinized law enforcement sweeps of homeless individuals. Developed by former gang members (without mental illness) facing capital punishment charges, this remarkable initiative of solidarity, redemption, and anti-racism through radical...

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