Chapter 2 A Prostitution of the Profession? The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force-Feeding, 1909-14

• Yazar: Miller, Ian (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2016
• Konular: Social & cultural history; History of science; force-feeding; northern irish prisons; hunger strikers; irish prisons; ethics; prison doctors
• Online Erişim: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Özet

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?

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (267 p.)

ISBN

9783319311135

Erişim

Open Access