The widespread phenomenon of enacting HIV-specific laws to criminally punish transmission of, exposure to, or non-disclosure of HIV, is counter-active to good public health conceptions and repugnant to elementary human rights principles. The authors provide ten reasons why criminal laws and criminal prosecutions are bad strategy in the epidemic.

There is no mental disease called insanity. Insanity is a legal term used to designate the condition of certain people who exhibit particular symptoms of mental diseases. A patient may be psychotic, but the law acts upon the assumption that he is not insane until there is a judical determination that he is. Where insanity as a defense in criminal cases is concerned, many medical men believe tha...

j. B. P., a European male, aged 42, transferred to this Asylum from Agra on the 11th October, 1918. His physical health is excellent. Wassermann reaction?Absolutely negative. Diagnosis?Dementia prsecox. . On the morning of the 31st July, 1920, immediately after he had passed stools in a commode in the ward, about 8 inches of a snake was found in his stools but minus its head.Every care was take...