Punishing Disease

HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

AvTrevor Hoppe

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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. Punitive attitudes toward AIDS prompted lawmakers around the country to introduce legislation aimed at criminalizing the behaviors of people living with HIV. Punishing Disease explains how this happened-and its consequences. With the door to criminalizing sickness now open, what other ailments will follow? As lawmakers move to tack on additional diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis to existing law, the question is more than academic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520291607

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Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University at Albany, State University of New York, and coeditor of The War on Sex.

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"This book offers numerous points of consideration that are relevant not only to the epidemic he discusses, but also our current pandemic. Notions of shame, stigma, misinformation (fake news) and punishment can immediately be applied to our experiences of COVID‐19. Though it is likely to find audiences amongst social scientists and public health professionals, I would argue that it has value for anyone interested in the relationship between disease and law, including those in the legal profession, policymakers and students. It is forensic and thorough, but engaging and accessible in terms of structure and language. . . . Hoppe offers a powerful, gently subversive text that is a call to action to build a new selection of tools to rebuild our epidemic responses, and to stop punishing disease."

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Punishment: AIDS in the Shadow of an American InstitutionPart One: Punitive Disease Control1. Controlling Typhoid Mary2. “HIV Stops with Me”3. The Public Health PolicePart Two: The Criminalization of Sickness4. Making HIV a Crime5. HIV on Trial6. Victim ImpactConclusion. Punishing DiseaseAppendix 1. Methods: On Analyzing the Anatomy of a Social ProblemAppendix 2. State HIV BillsNotesIndex