En savoir plus
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.
Table des matières
PrefaceChapter 1The concepts of Autonomy, Competence, Dignity and BiopoliticsIntroduction1.1.Autonomy1.2.Competence1.3.Dignity1.4.BiopoliticsConclusionChapter 2Enforcing medical treatment to keep a person alive: the problematic case of Anorexia NervosaIntroduction2.1.Anorexia Nervosa: an insight to a contemporary drama2.2. The conceptualization of Anorexia Nervosa by medicine, the law and the sufferers2.3. The tension between competence and mental illness in anorexics2.4. Are we to enforce medical treatment in cases of Anorexia Nervosa?2.5. The biopolitical reasoning for keeping anorexics aliveConclusionChapter 3Enforcing Medical Treatment to kill: the case of Charles Laverne Singleton23.3. Neuroscience, enforced treatments and other perspectives3.4. Punishment, insanity and responsibility3.4.a The idea of punishment3.4.b The evolution of the role of insanity in law3.4.c A retributivist argument3.5. Right to treatment or duty to be treated?4.6. A further optionConclusionChapter 4Hunger strikes and other controversial casesIntroduction4.1.The Dax's case4.2. Issues related to keeping one's alive against his will4.3. Allowing to die: the case of Sami Mbarka Ben Garci4.4. Can we consider reliable the competence of an hunger striker?4.5. Further hunger strike casesConclusionChapter 5Guantanamo and its specific biopolitical chargeIntroduction5.1. Declaration of Malta on hunger strikes5.2. Are hunger strikes in Guantanamo bay different from others?5.3. The role of doctors and their dual loyalty5.4. Arguments supporting the use of naso-gastric treatment in Guantanamo5.5. Arguments condemning the use naso-gastric treatment in Guantanamo5.6. Hyppocratic oath or political agenda? A biopolitical analysis of the issueConclusion
A propos de l'auteur
After a very productive period as an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the Center for Human Bioethics at Monash University, in October 2013 Dr. Mirko Garasic joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow. Shortly after his arrival, Dr. Garasic was also offered a position as Research Assistant for a project assessing medical tourism and global justice. He is currently working on a number of bioethical and biopolitical projects focused on human enhancement, male circumcision, hunger strikes, and neuroethics. Since the beginning of his Ph.D., Dr. Garasic has worked in four continents and published in five: in 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford, while in 2010 he spent a semester at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. During his time in India, he also collaborated with the Center for the Study of Ethics and Rights. In the following academic year, he was a Yale University and Hastings Center Visiting Scholar thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship. He participated in numerous international conferences and he has received various awards. He is a member of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy and the International Research Network on Religion and Democracy. Dr. Garasic has a number of forthcoming publications and presentations in 2014 and he has recently been invited to write a chapter for the Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television, scheduled to be published in the summer of 2015. Among other journals, his work has recently appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, in the Hastings Center Report and in Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy.
Résumé
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.
