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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