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Punishing Disease - HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
title
Punishing Disease - HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
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publisher
University of California Press
publication year
2017
description
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.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.
education level
temporal
reviewer
HistSex
was created by
Hoppe, Trevor