Punishing Disease : HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness / Trevor Hoppe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoppe, Trevor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Law and legislation--United States.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Punishment: AIDS in the Shadow of an American Institution

Part One. Punitive Disease Control

1. Controlling Typhoid Mary

2. "HIV Stops with Me"

3. The Public Health Police

Part Two. The Criminalization of Sickness

4. Making HIV a Crime

5. HIV on Trial

6. Victim Impact

Conclusion. Punishing Disease

Appendix 1. Methods: On Analyzing the Anatomy of a Social Problem

Appendix 2. State HIV Bills

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965300

0520965302

OCLC:

987437347