Dansk
Hoppe, Trevor
(forfatter)
Punishing Disease e-bog
317,82 DKK
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 tha…
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.
E-bog
317,82 DKK
Udgivet
10.11.2017
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.