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Guantanamo and Other Cases of Enforced Medical Treatment

A Biopolitical Analysis

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Mirko Daniel Garasic

    1. Tel Aviv University, The Edmond J. Safra Center For Ethics, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Discusses the continuously expanding timely topic of enforced medical treatment
  • The first book to present a larger biopolitical framework behind enforced medical treatment
  • Puts the current discussion on hunger strikes in Guantanamo in a more global context by referring to other cases of enforced medical treatment
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Concepts of Autonomy, Competence and Biopolitics

    • Mirko Daniel Garasic
    Pages 1-18

  3. Enforcing Medical Treatment to Keep a Person Alive: The Problematic Case of Anorexia Nervosa

    • Mirko Daniel Garasic
    Pages 19-35

  4. Enforcing Medical Treatment to Kill: The Case of Charles Laverne Singleton

    • Mirko Daniel Garasic
    Pages 37-53

  5. Hunger Strikes and Other Controversial Cases

    • Mirko Daniel Garasic
    Pages 55-73

  6. Guantanamo and Its Specific Biopolitical Charge

    • Mirko Daniel Garasic
    Pages 75-91

  7. Conclusion

    • Mirko Daniel Garasic
    Pages 93-98

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 99-100
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About this book

This volume presents a number of controversial cases of enforced medical treatment from around the globe, providing for the first time a common, biopolitcal framework for all of them. Bringing together all these real cases guarantees that a new, more complete understanding of the topic will be within grasp for readers unacquainted with the aspects involved in these cases. On the one hand, readers interested mainly in the legal and medical dimensions of cases like those considered will benefit from the explanation of the biopolitical framework within which each case develops. On the other hand, those focusing on only one of the situations presented here will find the parallels between the cases an interesting expansion of the complexity of the problem. Despite the book's ambitious goal, for those willing to use it as supplemental material or interested in only one of the cases, the chapters can function as self-standing pieces to be read separately. This volume will be a valuable tool for both academics and professionals. Bioethicists in both the analytic and continental traditions, will find the book interesting for not only the specific concepts and issues considered, but also for its constructive bridging of the two schools of thought. In addition to philosophers, the structure of this work will also appeal to lawyers, doctors, human rights activists, and anyone concerned in the most disparate way with real-life cases of enforced medical treatment.

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  • Tel Aviv University, The Edmond J. Safra Center For Ethics, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Mirko Daniel Garasic

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