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A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974
Ian Miller
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Hardback. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3JJ; HBTV; JKVP1; MBDC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
492g
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319311128
SKU
V9783319311128
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Ref
99-15
About Ian Miller
Ian Miller is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University. He is the author of A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800-1950, Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland: Medicine, Science and Improvement, 1845-1922 and Water: A Global History (2015).
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