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A HISTORY OF FORCE FEEDING - IAN MILLER KARTONI...

This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. 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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