Punishing disease: HIV and the criminalization of sickness

Thu, January 25, 2024 3:00 PM at Zoom

Society, Health, and Equity Research Group presents a lecture from Dr. Trevor Hoppe, Professor of Sociology at UNC Greensboro.

Professor Hoppe research analyzes the social control of sex by institutions of medicine, law, and public health. His book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press) analyzes the rise of punitive and coercive responses to HIV; Punishing Disease was awarded the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies. He is also the co-editor of Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era (with Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Rutgers University Press) and The War on Sex (with David Halperin, Duke University Press), which analyzes the punitive social control of sex (and was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies).