Criminalising Contagion (eBook, PDF)

Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law
Redaktion: Stanton, Catherine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316553923
• Artikelnr.: 53400278

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: disease transmission and the criminal law: a growing concern?
Hannah Quirk and Catherine Stanton; 1. HIV and the meaning of harm Matthew
Weait; 2. Crime and disease: contagion by metaphor Mike Hanne; 3. Leprosy
and the law: the 'criminalisation' of Hansen's disease in Hawai'i,
1865-1969 Kerri A. Inglis; 4. Criminalisation: the impact on the
healthcare/patient relationship Ceri Evans; 5. Criminal law and contagious
diseases - a Nordic perspective Aslak Syse; 6. Criminal HIV exposure
statutes and public health in the United States Leslie E. Wolf; 7. Making
science count: significant risk, HIV non-disclosure and science-based
criminal law reform: a reflexive analysis Eric Mykhalovskiy; 8. Feminism
and the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure Alana Klein; 9. Criminalising
contagion - questioning the paradigm Karl Laird.