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.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• 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