Criminalization of Care
Drug Testing Pregnant Patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2316810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Mccabe (0000-0002-2526-5561, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-176 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1465 • E-ISSN: 2150-6000 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00221465211058152 |
| PMID | 34794355 |
| OpenAlex | W3214478489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article reveals how law and legal interests transform medicine. Drawing on qualitative interviews with medical professionals, this study shows how providers mobilize law and engage in investigatory work as they deliver care. Using the case of drug testing pregnant patients, I examine three mechanisms by which medico-legal hybridity occurs in clinical settings. The first mechanism, clinicalization, describes how forensic tools and methods are cast in clinical terminology, effectively cloaking their forensic intent. In the second, medical professionals informally rank the riskiness of illicit substances using both medical and criminal-legal assessments. The third mechanism describes how gender, race, and class inform forensic decision-making and criminal suspicion in maternal health. The findings show that by straddling both medical and legal domains, medicine conforms to the standards and norms of neither institution while also suspending meaningful rights for patients seeking care
Criminal law · Criminalization · Criminology · Health care · Institution · Political science · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Sociology · Terminology · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |