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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Ian.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Historiography
  • Why Hunger Strike?
  • Experiencing Force-Feeding
  • Public Protests
  • Structure
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: 'A Prostitution of the Profession'?: The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force-­Feeding, 1909-14
  • From Asylums to Prisons
  • Ethical Dilemmas
  • The Loyalties of Prison Doctors
  • Bodies, Minds, and Stomach Tubes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: 'The Instrument of Death': Prison Doctors and Medical Ethics in Revolutionary-Period Ireland, c.1917
  • Suffragette Force-Feedings in Ireland
  • Republican Force-Feedings
  • Thomas Ashe's Inquest
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: 'A Few Deaths from Hunger Is Nothing': Experiencing Starvation in Irish Prisons, 1917-23
  • Changing Relations
  • Experiencing Starvation
  • Overseeing Death
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: 'I've Heard o' Food Queues, but This Is the First Time I've Ever Heard of a Feeding Queue!': Hunger Strikers, War, and the State, 1914-61
  • Force-Feeding Conscientious Objectors
  • Twentieth-Century Peace Movements and Hunger Striking
  • Wartime Irish Hunger Strikes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: 'I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding I Could Not Take': The Coercion of Hunger Striking Convict Prisoners, 1913-72
  • Prison Hunger Strikes and Force-Feeding, c.1913-40
  • Why Hunger Strike?
  • Successful Hunger Striking
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7: 'An Experience Much Worse Than Rape': The End of Force-Feeding?
  • The Troubles and Political Imprisonment
  • The Force-Feeding of Dolours and Marion Price
  • Human Rights and Prisoner Welfare
  • Medical Ethics and Force-Feeding
  • The Death of Michael Gaughan
  • Aftermaths
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8: Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Archival Material
  • Newspapers
  • Official Documents.
  • Bureau of Military History Archives
  • Websites
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index.

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