Background The worldwide debate over the use of artificial nutrition and hydration remains
controversial although the scientific and medical facts are unequivocal. Artificial nutrition and …

This book rehumanizes perpetrators of mass atrocities. At present a victim/perpetrator
dichotomy appears to be the dominant paradigm: perpetrators have either …

We refer to hospitalized convicted hunger strikers in Padua Hospital who decided to fast for
specific reasons, often demanding, to be heard by the judge, to complain about the existing …

The first coordinated hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility began in
February of 2002, and the last of these strikers were the first to be fed against their will by the …

Hunger strikes are used as a method of protest to call attention to grievances or political
positions and galvanize support for a cause. Historical examples from pre-Christian Europe …