Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Hoppe, Trevor

Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520291584)

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Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Hoppe, Trevor

Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

$95.00
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Hoppe, Trevor

Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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. 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.

Author: Trevor Hoppe
ISBN-10: 0520291581
ISBN-13: 9780520291584
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d

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Choice 06/01/2018
By Trevor Hoppe
By Trevor Hoppe
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Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and a coeditor of The War on Sex.

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