AJOBCase Presentation: Hunger Strike or Suicide by Starvation: Is Force Feeding a Prisoner Ethical?

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 46-46 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Force Feeding

scholarly journals Hunger strike and the force-feeding chair: Guantanamo Bay and corporeal surrender

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim ◽  
Anita Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Body ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Force Feeding ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
A Site ◽  
Corporeal Body

Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann – a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the biopolitics of the American empire on “terrorist bodies”. Not worthy of human rights or death, the force-fed body inhabits a realm of indistinction between animal and human. The camp as an interstitial space which is beyond closure as well as full disclosure produces an aesthetic of torture on the racialised Other through the force-feeding chair positioned between visibility and non-visibility. Through the discourse of medical ethics and the legal struggle for rights, the force-feeding chair emerges as a symbol of necropolitics where the hunger strike becomes a mechanism to impede death while possessing and violating the corporeal body.

On the Force-Feeding of Prisoners on Hunger Strike

HEC Forum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Kathrine Bendtsen
Keyword(s):  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Force Feeding

Carceral Oversight

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-600
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Medical Management ◽  
Medical Clinic ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Force Feeding ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
A Site

Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike, and a video project by human rights organization Reprieve featuring artist Yasiin Bey simulating the “proper” techniques for force-feeding, the author argues that pain becomes the basis of not only political subjectivity but also relationality between those held captive and the spectator.

Hunger Strikers: Ethical and Legal Dimensions of Medical Complicity in Torture at Guantanamo Bay

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 616-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Dougherty ◽  
Jennifer Leaning ◽  
P. Gregg Greenough ◽  
Frederick M. Burkle
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
The Us ◽  
Force Feeding ◽  
Organized Medicine ◽  
Military Law

AbstractPhysicians and other licensed health professionals are involved in force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba, the detention center established to hold individuals captured and suspected of being terrorists in the wake of September 11, 2001. The force-feeding of competent hunger strikers violates medical ethics and constitutes medical complicity in torture. Given the failure of civilian and military law to end the practice, the medical profession must exert policy and regulatory pressure to bring the policy and operations of the US Department of Defense into compliance with established ethical standards. Physicians, other health professionals, and organized medicine must appeal to civilian state oversight bodies and federal regulators of medical science to revoke the licenses of health professionals who have committed prisoner abuses at GTMO.DoughertySM, LeaningJ, GreenoughPG, BurkleFMJr. Hunger strikers: ethical and legal dimensions of medical complicity in torture at Guantanamo Bay. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2013;28(6):1-9.

Force-feeding political prisoners on hunger strike

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Weingarten
Keyword(s):  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Force Feeding

scholarly journals Die Grundrechtskollision

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Uffer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The State ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Force Feeding

When fundamental rights collide, the State can be precluded from fully meeting the usual requirements of the human rights order and find itself forced to severely restrict some of the rights involved. The analysis of legal and ethical theory as well as of specific cases (e.g. shooting down of civil airplanes; “rescue torture”; force-feeding a prisoner on a hunger strike) lead the author to a decidedly consequentialist understanding of fundamental rights. The work ends with a critical discussion of reasons and criteria to be taken into account when looking for the best (i.e. least bad) resolution of conflicts of fundamental rights. (Areas: Theories of justice, dogmatics of fundamental rights, legal theory.)

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