Punishing Disease (e-bog) af Hoppe, Trevor
Hoppe, Trevor (forfatter)

Punishing Disease e-bog

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From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIVmostly stigmatized minoritiesbegan 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 t...
E-bog 317,82 DKK
Forfattere Hoppe, Trevor (forfatter)
Udgivet 10 november 2017
Længde 288 sider
Genrer JFFH2
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780520965300
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIVmostly stigmatized minoritiesbegan 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.