Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/Aids and the limits of human rights in British prisons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12730835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet Weston (0000-0002-5154-5049, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-240 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural and Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0038 • E-ISSN: 1478-0046 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14780038.2019.1585012 |
| PMID | 31708693 |
| OpenAlex | W2921249975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article considers one specific strand of discussion around HIV/AIDS, in order to think about the uses and limitations of human rights discourse in late twentieth century Britain. HIV/AIDS presented particular problems for prisons, which were initially presented as breeding grounds of infection. This shifted with the rise of human rights language and laws in the 1990s, but talk of rights for prisoners was not as comfortable a fit as talk of equivalence of care. This story is situated in the broader context of attitudes towards crime, HIV/AIDS, and rights in late twentieth century Britain
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human rights · Political science · Situated · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Virology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |