A History of Force Feeding by Ian Miller

A History of Force Feeding by Ian Miller

It 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?

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Ian Miller is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst based in Dublin, Ireland, where he also facilitates clinical study/reading groups. He is the co-author of Beckett and Bion: The (Im)patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature (with Kay Souter) and the author of Defining Psychoanalysis: Obtaining a Vernacular Expression, On Minding and Being Minded: Experiencing Bion and Beckett, and On Minding and Being Minded: Experiencing Bion and Beckett.

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ISBN 13	9781013267345
ISBN 10	1013267346
Title	A History of Force Feeding
Author	Ian Miller
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Saint Philip Street Press
Year published	2020-10-08
Number of pages	268
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