Citation

García-Guerrero J. Rev. Esp. Sanid. Penit. 2013; 15(1): 8-15.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Sociedad Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria, Publisher Cometa)

DOI

10.4321/s1575-06202013000100003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Hunger strike is a common form of protest in prisons and is a potential cause of many types of problems, both for the prison administration and the doctors who care for prisoners who participate in one. Issues of conflict of rights and obligations involved, and how to treat people who are subject to the Administration, which in this case takes the position of guarantor, have created major controversies over doctrine. Conscientious objection and the conflict of dual loyalty of doctors working in prisons are also issues closely linked to a prison hunger strike. In this paper we review the solution given to the problem of treatment of a prison hunger strike from three perspectives: ethics, ethical and legal.

Language: es

Keywords

conflict; diet restriction; Dissent and Disputes; ethics; Fasting; human; Humans; legislation and jurisprudence; patient right; Patient Rights; personal autonomy; Personal Autonomy; physician attitude; Physician's Role; prison; prisoner; Prisoners; Prisons; Spain; suicide; Suicide