Trevor Hoppe on Punishing Disease




Office Hours show

Summary: In this episode, guest host Caty Taborda-Whitt sits down with Trevor Hoppe [1] to discuss his new book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness [2], which looks at the public health response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The conversation focuses on how this infectious disease became a target for criminalization [3] through policies and laws that punished the sick. Download Office Hours #136 [4] [1] http://www.trevorhoppe.com/ [2] https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291607 [3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613005947?via%3Dihub [4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH136_Hoppe.mp3