Article 5 of the 1975 Tokyo Declaration of World Medical Association, which has been accepted by the American Medical Association, instructs doctors that if a prisoner goes on a hunger strike to protest torture and abuse, it is the doctor's responsibility not to intervene in the hunger strike by force-feeding the prisoner, thereby readying the prisoner for more torture.

I can find no signatures attached to this statement but until proven otherwise, I will take it as fact. I am not a historian and it is good enough for me.