This is a fascinating story about the ethics of force-feeding prisoners who are on a hunger strike. The author provides a valuable insight into a topic that is complicated by the many competing imperatives of the state, individual freedom, religion, and the institution of medical practice. It's also a story that I find tremendously troublesome not only because of what happens to prisoners like the one in the story but also because this is an issue that I have virtually never heard raised before.
"The Longest Hunger Strike" by Ann Neumann
Published in Guernica Magazine, January 15, 2013
http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-longest-hunger-strike/?src=longreads
Eric
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