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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-18 13:36:15
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:38:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-27 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-18 13:36:15
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:38:23Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:38:23Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier1000171
dc.identifierOCN: 1076696788en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29777
dc.description.abstractIt is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of prison doctors called upon to perform the procedure. Since the Home Office first authorised force-feeding in 1909, a number of questions have been raised about the procedure. Is force-feeding safe? Can it kill? Are doctors who feed prisoners against their will abandoning the medical ethical norms of their profession? And do state bodies use prison doctors to help tackle political dissidence at times of political crisis?
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of scienceen_US
dc.subject.otherforce-feeding
dc.subject.othernorthern irish prisons
dc.subject.otherhunger strikers
dc.subject.otherirish prisons
dc.subject.otherethics
dc.subject.otherprison doctors
dc.titleChapter 3 The Instrument of Death
dc.title.alternativePrison Doctors and Medical Ethics in Revolutionary-Period Ireland, c.1917
dc.typechapter
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookf9e7d25b-04fa-4248-903a-c7f0831862d1
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.relation.isbn9783319311135
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages267
oapen.place.publicationBasingstoke
oapen.chapternumber3
oapen.grant.number101538
oapen.identifier.ocn1076696788


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