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Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

By Trevor Hoppe

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0520965302, 9780520965300
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2994666 bytes)
Pages
288\0
Time added
2018-02-10 03:00:38
AIDScriminalizationHealthHistoryhivlgbtMedicinePublic HealthPunishmentsocial science

Description

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Now that the door to criminalizing sickness is open, what other ailments will follow? With moves in state legislatures to extend HIV-specific criminal laws to include diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis, the question is more than academic. AIDS in the Shadow ..............1 part one punitive disease control ..............15 HIV Stops with Me ..............43 The Public Health Police ..............68 part two the criminalization of sickness ..............99 HIV on Trial ..............132

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