In this blog post, William Murphy explores the contested meaning of vomiting in the force-feeding of suffragettes
Tag: Prison medical officers
Crisis and Controversy: Prison Mental Healthcare in the Late 20th Century
Nicholas Duvall on the controversies surrounding prisoner mental healthcare in the late 20th century
Management of Health and Disease, 1850–1950
Margaret Charleroy
The physician was responsible for determining the maximum physical stress each inmate could safely endure …
Prison Doctors in the Medical Profession in England, 1970–1990
Nicholas Duvall
The relationship between prison doctors and their NHS colleagues was crucial to delivering prison healthcare …
Political Prisoners, Medicine and Health, 1850–2000
William Murphy
The intersection of health and medical care with ‘modern’ political imprisonment in England and Ireland …
Exploring the history of prisoner health 