A History of Force Feeding Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974 /

This book 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...

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Egile nagusia: Miller, Ian (Egilea)
Erakunde egilea: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa eBook
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Argitaratua: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Sarrera elektronikoa:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31113-5
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Aurkibidea:
  • 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?  .