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Foster C. Rinefort
Black and white portrait photograph of Foster C. Rinefort, Professor in Management-Marketing, 1981-1997.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/archives_faculty_mr/1278/thumbnail.jp
Response to N. Dinnie and L. McKee's article Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer: Technical Ethical and Quality of Life Issues
When autonomy kills: the case of Sami Mbarka Ben Garci
Foucault suggested that foreigners and criminals are treated in a particularly unfavourable way by the law. We find arguable support for that proposition in the case of Sami Mbarka Ben Garci. He was a Tunisian Muslim prisoner, charged with rape, held in an Italian prison. He went on a hunger strike, protesting his innocence. He was not force-fed, and was allowed to die. Hunger strikers are commonly force fed. We ask why he was not, and although the reasons in his case are not clear, we suggest that many prisoners perceived as being 'undesirable' (in the sense of being foreigners, or facing particularly serious allegations) are allowed to die (the rhetoric being that their autonomy is being respected), while other prisoners' autonomy would be violated in order to ensure survival. We explore the European and some domestic jurisprudence surrounding force-feeding, and conclude that the law is applied in a worryingly inconsistent way
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