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.
