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Author Weait, Matthew.

Title Intimacy and responsibility : the criminalisation of HIV transmission / Matthew Weait
Edition First edition
Published Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007

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Description xvi, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Edwin Cameron -- 1. The terrain: the state, criminal justice and HIV -- 2. The trial of Feston Konzani -- 3. Harm, causation and HIV infection -- 4. Risk, recklessness and HIV -- 5. Consent, knowledge and disclosure -- 6. Responsibility, HIV transmission and the criminal law
Summary "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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-227) and index
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England.
AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission -- Law and legislation -- England.
AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission -- Law and legislation -- Wales.
AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission -- Great Britain.
HIV infections -- Law and legislation -- England.
HIV infections -- Law and legislation -- Wales.
HIV-positive persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales.
HIV-positive persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.
HIV-positive persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales.
Liability (Law) -- Great Britain.
Sexually transmitted diseases -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
LC no. 2007024937
ISBN 1904385702
1904385710
9781904385707
9781904385714