{"product_id":"punishing-disease-hiv-and-the-criminalization-of-sickness-hardcover","title":"Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTrevor Hoppe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003ci\u003ePunishing Disease \u003c\/i\u003elooks 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a nation seduced by carceral solutions confronts a dreaded disease linked to sex and drugs? Trevor Hoppe's thorough and well-documented analysis explains how and why legislators, courts, public health officials, and police across the United States have 'criminalized sickness' in the case of HIV\/AIDS. \u003ci\u003ePunishing Disease \u003c\/i\u003eis a wake-up call about the dangers of punitive approaches to stopping the spread of disease.--Steven Epstein, author of \u003ci\u003eImpure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sociologists have examined a plethora of human conditions that have been medicalized and treated as illness. This well-researched book examines a case that flips medicalization on its head: how HIV\/AIDS, a devastating disease, became criminalized, and with what consequences. Trevor Hoppe's clear analysis sheds important new light on how the meanings of disease and illness have significant social, political, and health consequences.\"--Peter Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We might like to think that public health policy in the twenty-first century is enlightened and guided by science. Trevor Hoppe's \u003ci\u003ePunishing Disease\u003c\/i\u003e shatters any such illusion. In this carefully researched and meticulously argued book, Hoppe shows how fear and stigma have combined with Americans' belief that people are responsible for their own health and our increasing reliance on the criminal justice system to effectively criminalize HIV status. This important book should be read not only by those who are interested in America's response to HIV but also by everyone who cares about public health policy.\"--Wendy E. Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health and Policy Law, Northeastern University \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrevor Hoppe\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe War on Sex. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723953410111,"sku":"9780520291584","price":205.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3c590380ec5a12184d95dc19e309bb6a_8c13b493-dee9-4fb2-828e-19c093c63b4d.webp?v=1765100950","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/punishing-disease-hiv-and-the-criminalization-of-sickness-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}