A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909 1974.
2016
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Title
A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909 1974.
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3319311123
9783319311128
9783319311135
3319311131
9783319311128
9783319311135
3319311131
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan June 2016.
Language
English
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1 online resource.
Item Number
9783319311128
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HV8833
Dewey Decimal Classification
365.667
Summary
This book is Open Access under a CC BY license.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?
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This book is Open Access under a CC BY license.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?
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