A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974
Author:   Ian Miller
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9783319311128


Pages:   267
Publication Date:   26 August 2016
Format:   Hardback
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A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974


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Author:   Ian Miller
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.653kg
ISBN:  

9783319311128


ISBN 10:   3319311123
Pages:   267
Publication Date:   26 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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?

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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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