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PPP HomePRINCIPLES REGARDING HUNGER STRIKES
The American Medical Student Association:
1. URGES
healthcare professionals to uphold patient autonomy, as recognized by the 1975
Declaration of Tokyo and Declaration of Malta, such that medically informed and
competent prisoners may refuse nourishment. Physicians should not be involved in and should actively oppose the
force-feeding of prisoners or detainees at any facilities, in the
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