Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health by Peckham, Robert

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138957428)

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Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health by Peckham, Robert

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

$49.95
Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health by Peckham, Robert

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

$49.95
Format: Paperback
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This book maps the tensions, overlaps, and contradictions within and between social and biological understandings of disease and crime. It considers how and why disease--and, in particular, infectious disease--has come, reciprocally, to be framed as 'criminal.'

Author: Robert Peckham
ISBN-10: 1138957429
ISBN-13: 9781138957428
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
By Robert Peckham
By Robert Peckham
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Robert Peckham is Co-Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches in the Department of History.

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