Punishing Disease : HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness /
At the heart of 'Punishing Disease' is a central question: Why punishment? Although public health and medical institutions are designed to manage epidemics and viruses, punishment as an institution is built to manage crime. The tools designed for one job - pills versus handcuffs, hospitals...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | At the heart of 'Punishing Disease' is a central question: Why punishment? Although public health and medical institutions are designed to manage epidemics and viruses, punishment as an institution is built to manage crime. The tools designed for one job - pills versus handcuffs, hospitals versus prisons - are not effective for the other. The tool for punishing deviance is a hammer ill-suited for managing disease. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780520965300 |