A history of force feeding : hunger strikes, prisons and medical ethics, 1909-1974 /: hunger strikes, prisons and medical ethics, 1909-1974. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian Miller.
• Authors: Miller, Ian, 1980-
• Contents: 1. 'A Prostitution of the Profession'?: The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force Feeding, 1909-1914 -- 2. 'The Instrument of Death': Prison Doctors and Medical Ethics in Revolutionary-Period Ireland, c.1917 -- 3. 'A Few Deaths from Hunger is Nothing': Experiencing Starvation in Irish Prisons, 1917-23 -- 4. "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 -- 5. "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 -- 6: 'An Experience Much Worse Than Rape': The End of Force-Feeding?
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke (UK) : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (ix, 267 pages)), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.09; Prisons -- England; Prisons -- Northern Ireland; Prisons -- Ireland; Prisoners -- England; Prisoners -- Northern Ireland; Prisoners -- Ireland; Prisoners -- Medical care -- England; Prisoners -- Medical care -- Northern Ireland; Prisoners -- Medical care -- Ireland; Hunger strikes; Medical ethics; Enteral Nutrition -- history; Enteral Nutrition -- ethics; Ethics, Medical -- history; Prisons -- history; Prisons -- ethics; Politics; History, 20th Century; History of science; History; History: specific events and topics; Humanities; Mathematics and science; Science: general issues; Social and cultural history; Hunger strikes; Medical ethics; Prisoners; Prisoners -- Medical care; Prisons; United Kingdom; Ireland; England; Ireland; Northern Ireland; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319311128; 3319311123; 9783319311135; 3319311131
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 25, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.