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

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 7
Copyright Page......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Biology, Society, and Crime-Disease......Page 14
Case Studies: East Asia and the West......Page 21
A ‘New’ Politics of Health?......Page 35
Notes......Page 40
Part I......Page 51
1. Hong Kong’s Floating World: Disease and Crime at the Edge of Empire......Page 52
Open Borders, Loose Women......Page 57
Women on the Edge......Page 63
Male Informants and Chinese Agents......Page 68
Defining and Knowing the Chinese......Page 73
Conclusion: Crime, Disease, and Colonial Desire......Page 78
Notes......Page 80
2. Sexual Deviancies, Disease, and Crime in Cesare Lombroso and the “Italian School” of Criminal Anthropology......Page 90
Parallelism between Homosexuality and Criminality......Page 93
Crime as Disease......Page 98
Same-Sex Desire as Disease......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 110
Notes......Page 111
Introduction: Homesick in the City......Page 121
Cholera and “Social Murder”......Page 127
Wrecked Lives, Broken Houses......Page 132
Abject Space: Inside the Slum......Page 139
Conclusion: Contagious Deliriums......Page 146
Notes......Page 152
4. Morality Plays: Presentations of Criminality and Disease in Nazi Ghettos and Concentration Camps......Page 164
Punishment and Treatment, Prisoner and Patient......Page 169
Ghettos, Camps, and Quarantines......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 182
Notes......Page 185
Part II......Page 191
Introduction: Medicalization in China......Page 192
The Deviant Only Child or Deviance by Majority......Page 197
‘Boundary Crisis’: The Deviance of ‘Premature Love’ (Zaolian)......Page 203
‘Internet Addiction’ and Iad......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 215
Notes......Page 218
Introduction: ‘Sentinels’......Page 228
From Avian Flu to Suburban Riots......Page 234
Health and Society: Journalists at Le Monde......Page 239
TV and the Principle of Participation......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 250
Notes......Page 251
Introduction: Industrial Crime......Page 259
The Asbestos Trials in Japan......Page 265
The ‘Village of Asbestos’......Page 268
A Succession of Medical and Epidemiological Studies......Page 271
Medical Expertise in the Dock......Page 276
Conclusion......Page 280
Notes......Page 289
8. Crime Between History and Natural History......Page 304
The Walking Dead......Page 312
The International Necronautical Society......Page 318
The Uncanny Valley......Page 322
The Loyalty Card......Page 329
Notes......Page 332
Bibliography......Page 338
Contributors......Page 381
Index......Page 384