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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 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? This book is Open Access under a CC BY license.

History --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- geschiedenis --- sociale geschiedenis --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- World history --- Hunger strikes --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- Prison physicians --- Medical ethics. --- History. --- Social history. --- Social History. --- History of Science. --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisonment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Convicts --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Strikes, Hunger --- Fasting --- Government, Resistance to --- Nonviolence --- Passive resistance --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Physicians --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Civil rights --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Inmates --- Persons --- force-feeding --- northern irish prisons --- hunger strikers --- irish prisons --- ethics --- prison doctors