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

This book 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...

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Main Author:	Miller, Ian (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:	History. History of Science. Social History. Social history. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book