The Necropolitics of Psychiatric Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (pEAS)
Keywords:
MAiD, Psychiatric euthanasia, Necropolitics, Mad Studies, MbembeAbstract
The thrust of this conceptual piece is to critique the State granting medical assistance in dying (MAiD) access to those whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental disorder through a necropolitical lens. First, I introduce Mbembe’s (2003) Necropolitics as this paper’s theoretical framework. Second, I argue how the State grants the psy-profession free rein to deploy its armory of necropolitical tactics to entangle the psychiatrized in its death-making, identity-devouring deathworlds. This paper will demonstrate how the MAiD process for pEAS keeps suicidal aspirants suspended in death-in-life involving silence, sacrifice, and stillness and waiting in protracted states of injury; additionally, it gives rise to a ‘necroeconomy’ demanding irregular mad body/minds be killed off so sane people can thrive and multiply.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
There are no article processing or submission charges for CJDS authors.
Author(s) are not required to assign their copyright in and to their article to the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Instead, The CJDS asks for one-time rights to print this original work.
All articles in the journal are assigned a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
Authors are asked to contact the journal Editor if they wish to post the article on any website; translate or authorize a translation of the article; copy or otherwise reproduce the article, in any format, beyond what is permitted under Canadian copyright law, or authorize others to do so; copy or otherwise reproduce portions of the article, including tables and figures, beyond what is permitted under Canadian copyright law, or authorize others to do so.
Contacting the Editor will simply allow us to track the use and distribution of your article. We encourage use for non-commercial, educational purposes.
Authors must provide proof of permission clearance prior to the publication of their work if they are including images or other materials that are not their own. Keep in mind that such clearance can at times be costly, and often takes time. The journal editor can often work with you to seek permissions if you need information, advice or assistance.
