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It is the 1st monograph-length learn of the force-feeding of starvation strikers in English, Irish and northern Irish prisons. It examines moral debates that arose during the 20th century while governments permitted the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It additionally explores the fraught position of legal medical professionals known as upon to accomplish the technique. because the domestic workplace first permitted force-feeding in 1909, a few questions were raised concerning the technique. Is force-feeding secure? Can it kill? Are medical professionals who feed prisoners opposed to their will forsaking the clinical moral norms in their career? And do country our bodies use legal medical professionals to assist take on political dissidence every now and then of political crisis?
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33. 10. 1–24. 11. Dave Hannigan, Terence MacSwiney: The Hunger Strike that Rocked an Empire (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2010). 12. html. 19. 13. 21–2. 14. 18–38. 15. K. Stuart Ross, Smashing H-Block: The Popular Campaign Against Criminalisation and the Irish Hunger Strikes, 1976–1982 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011); Thomas Hennessey, Hunger Strike: Margaret Thatcher’s Battle with the IRA, 1980–1981 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013). 16. James McKenna, Farhat Manzoor and Greta Jones, Candles in the Dark: Medical Ethical Issues in Northern Ireland during the Troubles (London: Nuffield Trust, 2009).
49. See, for instance, the debate in ‘Suffragettes in Prison (Supply of Food)’, House of Commons Debates (6 October 1909), vol. 11 cols 1999–2002. 50. ‘Prisoner (Artificial Feeding)’, House of Commons Debates (30 January 1974), vol. 868 cols 441–5. 51. 107. 52. Leonard S. 353–5. 53. Vladimir Bukovsky, ‘Account of Torture’, in Being Human: President’s Council on Bioethics (Washington D. 218–19. 54. Assistance in Hunger Strikes: A Manual for Physicians and Other Personnel Dealing with Hunger Strikers, trans.
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