Legal responses to HIV and AIDS
By: James Chalmers.
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781841137261
Subjects: HIV-positive persons -- Legal status, laws, etc; AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc; AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation; HIV infections -- Law and legislation
Description: This book examines legal responses to HIV and AIDS and evaluates these issues in comparative perspective. It draws on legal responses to other sexually transmitted infections and contagious diseases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: Testing for HIV : legal and ethical problems; title: Confidentiality and duties to warn; title: Harm minimisation and the law; title: HIV and deportation from the United Kingdom; title: The criminalisation of HIV transmission; title: Access to treatment : a brief note on patent law.