History of Force Feeding

Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvIan Miller

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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 prisoners.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-09
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt366 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor267
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319809663

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1. ‘A Prostitution of the Profession’?: The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force Feeding, 1909-1914.- 2. ‘The Instrument of Death’: Prison Doctors and Medical Ethics in Revolutionary-Period Ireland, c.1917.- 3. ‘A Few Deaths from Hunger is Nothing’: Experiencing Starvation in Irish Prisons, 1917-23.- 4. “I’ve Heard o’ Food Queues, but this is the First Time I’ve ever Heard of a Feeding Queue!”: Hunger Strikers, War and the State, 1914-61.- 5. “I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force Feeding I could not Take”: The Coercion of Hunger Striking Convict Prisoners, 1913-72.- 6: ‘An Experience Much Worse Than Rape’: The End of Force-Feeding?