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A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974
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A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974
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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. 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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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: āA Prostitution ofĀ theĀ Professionā?: TheĀ Ethical Dilemma ofĀ Suffragette Force-ĀFeeding, 1909ā14
- Chapter 3: āThe Instrument ofĀ Deathā: Prison Doctors andĀ Medical Ethics inĀ Revolutionary-Period Ireland, c.1917
- Chapter 4: āA Few Deaths fromĀ Hunger Is Nothingā: Experiencing Starvation inĀ Irish Prisons, 1917ā23
- Chapter 5: āIāve Heard oā Food Queues, but This Is theĀ First Time Iāve Ever Heard of aĀ Feeding Queue!ā: Hunger Strikers, War, andĀ theĀ State, 1914ā61
- Chapter 6: āI Would Have Gone onĀ withĀ theĀ Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding IĀ Could Not Takeā: TheĀ Coercion ofĀ Hunger Striking Convict Prisoners, 1913ā72
- Chapter 7: āAn Experience Much Worse Than Rapeā: TheĀ End ofĀ Force-Feeding?
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index