Moreads’s Reviews > Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease > Status Update

Jade knows her dad was killed in a police encounter. Police said his death was unexplainable. The author asks Jade, was the cause of death excited delirium syndrome? “How did you know?” “I think your dad’s spirit might be trying to contact me.” I love books on the fabulation of medicine, and the racist making of diagnostic categories is especially harrowing (see the Protest Psychosis). Keen to read on.