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Being Human, a collection of readings assembled by President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics, contains a powerful description of the force-feeding of Soviet political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky, who was on a hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison authorities to provide a lawyer for a fellow inmate who was awaiting trial:

They started feeding me forcibly through the nostril. By a rather thick rubber tube with a metal end on it. . . . The procedure will be that four or five KGB guys will come to my cell, take me to a medical unit, put a straitjacket on me, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

What is a Hunger Strike?

Should Physicians Participate in Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers at Guantanamo?

Medical Means to Force-Feed Hunger Strikers

Medical Ethics at Guantanamo

Source Information

From the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.

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• Crosby, S. S., Apovian, C. M., Grodin, M. A. (2007). Hunger Strikes, Force-feeding, and Physicians' Responsibilities. JAMA 298: 563-566 [Full Text]