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Criminalising Contagion
Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law
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Criminalising Contagion
Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law
About this book
The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law, and the related academic literature, has largely focused on HIV transmission. With contributions from leading practitioners and international scholars from a variety of disciplines, this volume explores the broader question of if and when it is appropriate to criminalise the transmission of contagion. The scope and application of the laws in jurisdictions such as Canada, the United Kingdom and Norway are considered, historical comparisons are examined, and options for the further development of the law are proposed.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law: A Growing Concern?
- 1 HIV and the Meaning of Harm
- 2 Crime and Disease: Contagion by Metaphor
- 3 Leprosy and the Law: The ‘Criminalisation’ of Hansen’s Disease in Hawai.i, 1865–1969
- 4 The Impact of Criminalising Disease Transmission on the Healthcare Professional-Patient Relationship
- 5 Criminal Law and Contagious Diseases – A Nordic Perspective
- 6 Criminal HIV Exposure Statutes and Public Health in the United States
- 7 Making Science Count: Significant Risk, HIV Non-disclosure and Science-Based Criminal Law Reform: A Reflexive Analysis
- 8 Feminism and the Criminalisation of HIV Non-disclosure
- 9 Criminalising Contagion – Questioning the Paradigm
- Index