Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

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.'

Author: Robert Peckham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781138957428

About the Author

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.