Disease and Crime

A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
Herausgeber: Peckham, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book maps the tensions, overlaps, and contradictions within and between social and biological understandings of disease and crime. It considers how and why disease?and, in particular, infectious disease?has come, reciprocally, to be framed as 'criminal.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781138957428
• ISBN-10: 1138957429
• Artikelnr.: 43918086

Autorenporträt

Robert Peckham is Co-Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches in the Department of History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pathologizing Crime, Criminalizing Disease Part I 1. Hong
Kong's Floating World: Disease and Crime at the Edge of Empire 2. Sexual
Deviancies, Disease, and Crime in Cesare Lombroso and the "Italian School"
of Criminal Anthropology 3. Pathological Properties: Scenes of Crime, Sites
of Infection 4. Morality Plays: Presentations of Criminality and Disease in
Nazi Ghettos and Concentration Camps Part II 5. The "Bad" and the "Sick":
Medicalizing Deviance in China 6. Contagious Wilderness: Avian Flu and
Suburban Riots in the French Media 7. The Criminalization of Industrial
Disease: Epidemiology in a Japanese Asbestos Lawsuit 8. Crime Between
History and Natural History