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Medical Ethics and Political Protest
Author(s) -
DOOLEYCLARKE DOLORES
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3560535
Subject(s) - politics , political science , sociology , law , psychology , social psychology
O n October 3, 1981, the Republican prisoners in the Maze prison of Northern Ireland announced that "the hunger strike must, for tactical reasons, be suspended." The hunger strike was begun on March 1, to support Republican prisoners' claims for political status; and by the time it ended, seven months later, ten men had died. Four men had been taken off the hunger strike at the onset of a coma when their families authorized medical intervention.