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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...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-297842021-11-12T16:11:43Z Chapter Acknowledgements Miller, Ian force-feeding northern irish prisons hunger strikers irish prisons ethics prison doctors bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science 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? 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:38:28Z 2016-09-27 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:38:28Z 2020-04-01T12:38:28Z 2016 chapter 1000164 OCN: 1076752481 9783319311135 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29784 eng application/pdf n/a Acknowledgements - A History of Force Feeding - NCBI Bookshelf.pdf Springer Nature A History of Force Feeding Palgrave Macmillan 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 f9e7d25b-04fa-4248-903a-c7f0831862d1 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319311135 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 267 Basingstoke 1 101538 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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description 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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