January/February 2013

Medicine has always been implicated in torture. In this issue of Briarpatch, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay looks at the role of doctors in national security and the politics of pain. Isabeau Doucet and Justin Podur discuss Canada’s role in Haiti’s new dictatorship, and Briarpatch editor emeritus Dave Oswald Mitchell tackles the topics of drugs, gangs, and Harper’s war on the poor.

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Inside This Issue

Letter from the editor

by Valerie Zink Jan 1, 2013 3 min read
Defining who is Métis

by Tara Gereaux Jan 1, 2013 10 min read
Killers in high places

by Dave Oswald Mitchell Jan 1, 2013 9 min read
When a bone breaks

by Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay Jan 1, 2013 7 min read
The olive grove

by Xero Jan 1, 2013 1 min read
Outsourcing sovereignty

by Isabeau Doucet Jan 1, 2013 6 min read
Responsibility to protect?

by Anthony Fenton Jan 1, 2013 3 min read
Amulet

by Cynthia Dewi Oka Jan 1, 2013 2 min read
Reduced, refused, reignited

by Larissa Schneider Jan 1, 2013 2 min read
“Dreams are the worst right now”

by Fathima Cader Jan 1, 2013 4 min read
Conversations on ecological justice, healing, and decolonization

by Peter Hopperton Jan 1, 2013 2 min read
Monkeywrench murder mystery

by Yutaka Dirks Jan 1, 2013 3 min read
From abortion rights to reproductive justice

by Bianca Mugyenyi Jan 1, 2013 3 min read