The links between situations of torture and hunger strikes in the context of imprisonment will also be reviewed, leading to a discussion on the two World Medical Association declarations that specifically deal with hunger strikes. As soon became clear, the hunger strikes in Ulster were deadly serious, with a total of ten prisoners dying over several months. By Jane Chung. Therefore, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence suggests that trained health-care professionals make sure that nutrients are cautiously and gradually introduced to anyone who has refused food for five days or more. Essential to this type of strike is that the prison regime be lenient enough to permit such open displays of protest, and - more to the point - allow news of the strike to circulate outside the prison despite the adverse publicity for the system. When telling the author about his experience, he first protested vehemently at not having his wishes respected by the prison doctor. We are deeply concerned about the danger to their health in the sacrifice they have been making. less It should hardly be necessary to state that any form of religious fasting clearly has nothing to do with hunger strikes. WebRecent findings: Overall, intermittent feeding has not been shown to increase glucose variability or gastrointestinal intolerance, two of the reasons continuous feeding is the preferred method. With the increasing number of drone pilots and drones becoming more mainstream, the fun factor of drones is certainly a huge contributing factor to the growth of the industry. He ended the hunger strike 24 days later after his doctors warned him that he was at risk of suffering cardiac arrest. It was in this context that the controversial medical act of force-feeding was performed for the first time by court order (in 1909). Galaxy Group of Companies and Fondation Universit Franaise en Armnie Sign Memorandum of Understanding, "The Woman": Viva-MTS project dedicated to women's month, We believe in the potential of our team and Armenia. Medical contraindications to a hunger strike, such as metabolic diseases (diabetes, etc. Since the ICRC has never been allowed to visit Turkish prisoners, its doctors were not involved in these cases, and much of the medical information on the strikes is still to be made available. Sadly, there are also some cons to this solution. All too often hunger strikers who fast up to or beyond the limits of irreversible physiological consequences are labelled as suicidal. The motive behind the refusal of food is completely different from that of the preceding category, as is also the way in which it is carried out. Doctors should be attentive to patients of this sort, as they may well be medical cases that require medical attention they do not actually ask for. This is a loss that is difficult to make up over time. The term is used to justify the refusal of food, possibly to give it some sort of noble justification. (Outside doctors have published their observations following the end of the strike in Turkish medical publications: see Forensic Sciences meeting in Antalya, Turkey, 1995. The importance of doctors being aware of these effects has recently been stressed in two British Medical Journal articles (Kalk et al 1993, Peel 1997). As the idea behind a strike is to try to force the authority to make concessions on some point, this takes time. After 45 days, there is a high risk of death, mostly due to infection or cardiovascular collapse. When analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches, it is important to recognize that persistent hunger benefits some people. This advantage makes it a lot easier to keep corporate legacy expenses in check. This is particularly true in countries where individual rights, or even human rights in general, are perhaps not fully respected. Not Hollywood, not L.A., not the country, At 19, he won a local school board seat. This may be difficult or even impossible for the prison doctor himself. Finally, it will make a case for respecting the informed decision to accept or refuse medical assistance made by prisoners whose fasting is a genuine last resort protest in custodial settings. Traditional budgeting might not examine this issue for several years, waiting until an economic shock disrupts the system. What will that do for me? He said, Well, you can graduate with only a 2.4 [grade-point average]! To which I replied: Thats stupid! Before discussing the effects of fasting and its ethical implications, it is first of all necessary to define the very different situations involved. (Soldiers charging a heavily defended enemy position also run the risk of dying. Someone who attempts suicide is either appealing for help, as in the majority of cases, or he truly wants to end his life. Feeling that Tokyo did not give enough guidance to doctors on performing their ethical duties in the event of hunger strikes, they proposed to amend and expand the declaration. She was forced to end the fast after nine days due to her health. As is well known, the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Tokyo of 1975 prohibits any participation in torture, whether actively, passively or through use of medical knowledge, by a medical doctor. Prisoners who refuse food may be just that - food refusers - and quite distinct from the other category, the real hunger strikers . Once the prisoners were in hospital, they were duly informed of Article 5 of the Tokyo Declaration and told that there would be no force-feeding. Each can be further divided into two sub-categories. The whole idea of separating how we deal with each other in terms of oppressed, racial and ethnic victim categories was patently ridiculous and unworkable in the first place. The question of force-feeding is a case in point, and this will be discussed further on. The clear-cut case of a politically motivated hunger striker is different. An individual prisoners margin of freedom allowing him to refuse orders from his internal hierarchy may be slim or non-existent. The examples given are all taken from the field experience of the author and other doctors working for the Internat ional Committee of the Red Cross. It is inappropriate to assert, however, that hunger strikers should be placed in the same category as persons intending to commit suicide. While people can survive up to several weeks without food under certain conditions, physical and mental impairment can begin within two to three days. Consciously or subconsciously, according to context, culture and intellect, he will expect to be taken care of long before there is any danger to his health from fasting. Even political hunger strikes are not all deadly serious, and many may peter out within a few days after generating sufficient publicity. This doctor was deeply convinced that any serious hunger strike was tantamount to suicide, and so there was no question of respecting the autonomy of such a patient. This type of prisoner can be male or female. Seasoned prison doctors, who have spent whole careers working in prison environments, will be best at handling such prisoners, carefully balancing respect for the patient with a firm approach on what they can and should do from a medical point of view. 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The cases of rotating strikes will not be considered, as they cannot be viewed as protests that the authorities or medical personnel could take seriously. 16, D-23552 Lbeck, Tel. South Africa Med J 83: 391-394, Kalk WJ, Veriawa Y (1991) Hospital management of voluntary total fasting among political prisoners. Heeding the informed consent of a hunger striker, confirmed within the trust of the docto r-patient relationship, and respecting the intrinsic dignity of the fasting prisoner is certainly part of the doctors duty in looking after the patients welfare. More important, it will be possible to determine whether fasting prisoners have really agreed to fast, or whether they have merely been obliged to obey instructions from the group. What was the immediate motivation for suffragists to embark on hunger strikes? Johannes Wier Foundation for Health and Human Rights (1995) Assistance in hunger strikes: a m anual for physicians dealing with hunger strikes. Article 5 of the Tokyo Declaration also stipulates that prisoners on hunger strikes shall not be force-fed, though few doctors know exactly why this clause is included. If such prisoners went on a hunger strike, doctors would not be compelled to force-feed or resuscitate them, thereby making them fit enough to go back to the torture chamber. The ban on force-feeding relates to the background to the declaration, i.e. Most families, in fact, supported their sons or husbands on the strike.). It may include liver dysfunction, heart arrhythmia, and pulmonary, neurological, or other symptoms. This is particularly true when politically motivated prisoners are involved. Amerstoort/NL, Kalk WJ, Felix M, Snoey ER, Veriawa Y (1993) Voluntary total fasting in political prisoners: Clinical and biochemical observations. Force-feeding is done against someone's will, usually by inserting a plastic tube through the hunger striker's nose into the stomach. This type of intervention, particularly after a mere 10 to 12 days of fasting, has to be seen as coercive and not medical. It is mostly used by those who have no other form of protest available -- usually prisoners. Maria Alyokhina, a jailed member of the Russian performance-art punk band Pussy Riot, started a hunger strike because she was not allowed to attend her own parole hearing. The Geneva-based organizations visits to prisoners around the world are just one part of its varied work protecting victims of conflict and violence everywhere. Although all involve a certain degree of fasting, they vary greatly in their impact on health and in the ethical dilemmas they may ultimately cause. It is mentioned in passing simply because it has sometimes been misconstrued owing to ignorance and cultural differences between captors and captives. : +49-451-70 31 01 Fax: +49-451-70 31 2 53, The key issue in a hunger strike is that voluntary total fasting should indeed be voluntary. most effective in the lodged crops. PRO: Drones are fun to fly. The primary aim of the pressure thus exerted is to shame the authority into giving in to whatever demands are being made by the protesters as is described by WB Yeats in The Kings ThreshoId: if a man Be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve Upon anothers threshold till he die, The common people, for all time to come, Will raise a heavy cry against the threshold, Even though it be the Kings. M. Oehmichen, ed., Verlag Schmidt-Rmhild, Lbeck, 1998. They are loving the attention, the high drama. skill person required. Despite the advantages it provided, agrarian culture also came with significant disadvantages. Patients choosing this method of treatment are recommended only to use water while fasting. Hunger helps the organism overcome the ordinary monotonous condition. There are several reasons why authorities usually don't want a hunger striker to die. The contraindications are given to patients with malignant tumors (though Bragg insists on the contrary), people who are up to 15 percent underweight, as well as those suffering from pulmonary TB, blood diseases, diabetes, heart and stomach disorders, stomach ulcer etc. (The black-and-white case often cited here is that of a general, found guilty of treason, who prefers to blow his brains out rather than face a shameful court-martial. See also Ismir in the last hunger strikes Dr. Zaki Gul, in Toplum ve Hekim, Eyll-Aralik 1996.) This is the crucial argument - to be pursued later on which refutes the frequent assertion that hunger strikes are tantamount to suicide. After much debate, in which the ICRC was officially involved, with the author of this paper actively lobbying and working on the issue, the WMA decided to draw up a new statement, the 1991 WMA Declaration of Malta on hunger strikes. What they have The two categories represent completely different states of mind and have different aims. While online marketing and promotional strategies do level the playing field to some extent, cost represents the big disadvantage for most marketing efforts. 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One typical prison doctor made it known early on to hunger-striking prisoners that, because of his profound religious principles, he would not tolerate any prisoner starving himself to death, and would not hesitate to order them to be force-fed at an early stage (in a country of Latin America in the late eighties). So I hope we soon get to the point where nobody is a minority, and instead we are all just Americans. Real hunger strikes involve actual fasting , which has to be voluntary and has to be pursued for a specific purpose . Within the next week, he or she may suffer from vision loss or other neurological problems. (This sometimes led to bitter arguments, with some hunger strikers telling their families they would never forgive them if they broke the strike by asking for medical assistance on their behalf. When you hold some people back (whites and Asians in this case) and nudge others forward (Hispanics in this case), thats racial discrimination! 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