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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 ...
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  • Publication Date: 10 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9780520291607
  • Pages: 288
  • Imprint: University of California Press
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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.
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Price: $32.95
Pages: 288
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 10 November 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520291607
Format: Paperback
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"This book offers numerous points of consideration that are relevant not only to the epidemic he discusses, but also our current pandemic. Notions of shame, stigma, misinformation (fake news) and punishment can immediately be applied to our experiences of COVID‐19. Though it is likely to find audiences amongst social scientists and public health professionals, I would argue that it has value for anyone interested in the relationship between disease and law, including those in the legal profession, policymakers and students. It is forensic and thorough, but engaging and accessible in terms of structure and language. . . . Hoppe offers a powerful, gently subversive text that is a call to action to build a new selection of tools to rebuild our epidemic responses, and to stop punishing disease."
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. 
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