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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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke
Springer Nature
2016
Cham : 2016. |
| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Colección: | Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427892806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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? .
