Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
University of California Press
ISBN13:
9780520291607
$42.46
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. 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 happenedand 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.
- | Author: Trevor Hoppe
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: November 10, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0520291603
- | ISBN-13: 9780520291607
- Author:
- Trevor Hoppe
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Publication Date:
- November 10, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 288 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0520291603
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520291607