Guantanamo and Other Cases of Enforced Medical Treatment: A Biopolitical Analysis

Preface Chapter 1 The concepts of Autonomy, Competence, Dignity and Biopolitics Introduction 1.1.Autonomy 1.2.Competence 1.3.Dignity 1.4.Biopolitics Conclusion Chapter 2 Enforcing medical treatment to keep a person alive: the problematic case of Anorexia Nervosa Introduction 2.1.Anorexia Nervosa: an insight to a contemporary drama 2.2. The conceptualization of Anorexia Nervosa by medicine, the law and the sufferers 2.3. The tension between competence and mental illness in anorexics 2.4. Are we to enforce medical treatment in cases of Anorexia Nervosa? 2.5. The biopolitical reasoning for keeping anorexics alive Conclusion Chapter 3 Enforcing Medical Treatment to kill: the case of Charles Laverne Singleton 2 3.3. Neuroscience, enforced treatments and other perspectives 3.4. Punishment, insanity and responsibility 3.4.a The idea of punishment 3.4.b The evolution of the role of insanity in law 3.4.c A retributivist argument 3.5. Right to treatment or duty to be treated? 4.6. A further option Conclusion Chapter 4 Hunger strikes and other controversial cases Introduction 4.1.The Dax's case 4.2. Issues related to keeping one's alive against his will 4.3. Allowing to die: the case of Sami Mbarka Ben Garci 4.4. Can we consider reliable the competence of an hunger striker? 4.5. Further hunger strike cases Conclusion Chapter 5 Guantanamo and its specific biopolitical charge Introduction 5.1. Declaration of Malta on hunger strikes 5.2. Are hunger strikes in Guantanamo bay different from others? 5.3. The role of doctors and their dual loyalty 5.4. Arguments supporting the use of naso-gastric treatment in Guantanamo 5.5. Arguments condemning the use naso-gastric treatment in Guantanamo 5.6. Hyppocratic oath or political agenda? A biopolitical analysis of the issue Conclusion