A History of Force Feeding : Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974

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...

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Main Author: Miller, Ian (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2016
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