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    A History of Force Feeding

    Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974

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    Author(s)
    Miller, Ian
    Collection
    Wellcome
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    It 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?
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32103
    Keywords
    force-feeding; northern irish prisons; hunger strikers; irish prisons; ethics; prison doctors; Suffragette
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-319-31113-5
    ISBN
    9783319311135
    OCN
    969771902
    Publisher
    Springer Nature
    Publisher website
    https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/books
    Publication date and place
    Basingstoke, 2016
    Grantor
    • Wellcome Trust - 101538
    Imprint
    Palgrave Macmillan
    Classification
    Social and cultural history
    History of science
    Pages
    267
    Chapters in this book
    • Chapter 7 An Experience Much Worse Than Rape
    • Chapter 3 The Instrument of Death
    • Chapter 8 Conclusion
    • Chapter 5 I've Heard Food Queues, but This Is the First Time I've Ever Heard of a Feeding Queue!
    • Chapter 2 A Prostitution of the Profession?
    • Chapter 1 Introduction
    • Chapter 6 I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding I Could Not Take
    • Chapter Bibliography
    • Chapter Acknowledgements
    • Chapter 4 A Few Deaths from Hunger Is Nothing
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Force-feeding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-feeding; Hunger strike - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_strike; Suffragette - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • If not noted otherwise all contents are available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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