Intimacy and responsibility : the criminalisation of HIV transmission / Matthew Weait.

  • Weait, Matthew
Date:
2007
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"In what circumstances, and on what basis, should those who transmit serious disease to their sexual partners be criminalised? In this book Matthew Weait provides a critical analysis of the response of the English criminal courts to those who have been convicted of transmitting HIV during sex. He argues that the cases provide us with an important insight into the way in which the criminal constructs the concepts of harm, risk, causation, blame and responsibility, and - more generally - how it is impossible to understand the law in this area without also engaging with the socio-cultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS and sexuality."--From book cover.

Publication/Creation

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.

Physical description

xvi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes

"A GlassHouse book."--From cover.
Copy1. Donor: NAM (National AIDS Manual).

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.

Contents

The terrain : the state, criminal justice and HIV -- The trial of Feston Konzani -- Harm, causation and HIV infection -- Risk, recklessness and HIV -- Consent, knowledge and disclosure -- Responsibility, HIV transmission and the criminal law.

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  • 9781904385707
  • 1904385702