Legal and ethical implications of medically enforced feeding of detained asylum seekers on hunger strike
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 180 (5) , 237-240
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05893.x
Abstract
The current practice of non‐consensual medical treatment of hunger‐striking asylum seekers in detention needs closer inquiry. An Australian Government regulation empowers the Department of Immigrati...Keywords
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