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- Title
Using Ethics Committees to Justify Force-Feeding Political Prisoners in Israel.
- Authors
LEDERMAN, ZOHAR; ESSEX, RYAN
- Abstract
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons without trial. For some of them, engaging in hunger strikes is the last resort in opposing unlawful detention and inhumane prison conditions. While mainstream bioethics deliberation, reasonable arguments, and international legal and medical professional declarations prohibit force-feeding, local ethical deliberations, professional medical guidelines, and legislation allow the use of medical judgment and clinical ethics committees to forcefeed these prisoners. Until now, Israeli physicians have refused to do so, but this may change in the future. The international medical and bioethics communities need to stand behind these medical professionals, as well as prisoners. Clinical ethics committees in Israel must choose whether they serve the interests of these prisoner-patients and perhaps their political or human rights agenda, or whether they are subservient to an unjust, oppressive regime.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; PRISON psychology; ARTIFICIAL feeding; HUMAN rights; CORRECTIONAL institutions; ETHICS; PRACTICAL politics; LIBERTY; CORRECTIONAL personnel; HUNGER; ETHICS committees; PATIENTS' rights; AUTONOMY (Psychology); PHYSICIANS; BIOETHICS
- Publication
Health & Human Rights: An International Journal, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
1079-0969
- Publication type
Article