These references provide a primer on Medical Abolition. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to suggest or recommend additional readings.
On Abolition as a Framework:
- Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election Democracy Now! (June 12, 2020)
- So You’re Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist / Medium / Oct 29 2020
- “What is abolition and why do we need it?” Reina Sultan and Micah Herskind. Vogue. July 23 2020.
On Abolition in Medicine:
- Toward Medical Abolition Special Issue, AMA Journal of Ethics. Mar 2022.
- "An Ethical, Legal, and Structural Framework for Law Enforcement in the Emergency Department." Hannay H. Janeway, Shamsher Samra, Ji Seon Song. Annals of Emergency Medicine. October 2021.
- “Liberation to Abolition: Reimagining the world.” Francis X. Coughlin. Emergency Medicine News. July 2021.
- “Beyond border health: Infrastructural violence and the health of border abolition.” Sam B. Dubal, Shamsher S. Samra, Hannah H. Janeway. Social Science & Medicine. June 2021.
- “Proposing Abolition Theory for Carceral Medical Education” Joseph David DiZoglio and Kate Telma. Journal of Medical Humanities. 23 April 2021.
- “Allying Public Health and Abolition: Lessons From the Campaign Against Jail Construction in Los Angeles.” Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson, Shamsher Samra, Jeremy Levenson. AJPH. March 10 2021.
- “Abolition Medicine” Yoshiko Iwai, Zahra H Khan, Sayantani DasGupta, The Lancet. July 18 2020.
- "Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation." Dorothy Roberts. The Imprint. June 16 2020.
- “Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine” Noor Chadha, Bernadette Lim, Madeleine Kane, and Brenly Rowland. Othering & Belonging Institute. May 13 2020.
- "A Touch of Delirium and a Silver Badge: Challenges of Integrating Security and Healing in Hospitals." Juliana E. Morris. July 2017.
- "My Damn Mind." This American Life, Podcast. Feb 12 2016.
- Department of Public Health Must Divest Movement is a coalition that seeks to remove San Francisco Sheriff’s Department from the city’s Department of Public Health (DPH) clinics and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). The coalition aims to reinvest the divested funds in our community and systems committed to trauma informed care, de-escalation, and community accountability. Join the DPH Must Divest coalition to learn more about their campaign.
On Medicine in Carceral Spaces
- Advocacy and Research on Reproductive Wellness of Incarcerated People: a research group at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine championing the reproductive wellbeing of incarcerated women. Their publications can be found here.