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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-20.500.12657-321032021-11-04T14:07:38Z A History of Force Feeding Miller, Ian force-feeding northern irish prisons hunger strikers irish prisons ethics prison doctors Suffragette 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? 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T13:58:22Z 2020-04-01T13:58:22Z 2016 book 617338 OCN: 969771902 9783319311135 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32103 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 617338.pdf http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319311128#otherversion=9783319311135 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-31113-5 10.1007/978-3-319-31113-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 27c8526d-c06c-42e0-86b3-238ede09b75e ad3172b5-0e8f-47a9-a5a9-521965270c28 43253565-2e47-4492-8716-9c21d57637aa 8f8f4534-3d85-4025-bdb3-706b2f878b64 d971e4ce-2cf5-4d0e-b7b0-91d8e4480293 8a1fa43d-adc8-47c5-9d80-6318132ce02d bc06eabf-542f-47f2-8992-9d739e131e52 f0de0f6c-8b12-4007-b568-591ccb74f7b8 1e430c43-f034-49b1-89eb-739c2d50a91a 2d5c2dcc-4313-44c8-9e59-421f7fd27f3e d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319311135 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 267 Basingstoke 101538 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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