Leaving - A Narrative of Assisted Suicide

"Leaving is an extraordinary book, one that offers an exceptionally compelling inquiry into the experiential, social, political, and ethical dimensions of voluntary assisted dying. The work as a whole is quite innovative, both in terms of the subject matter considered and the conceptual analysis developed. There is a singular, original quality to the text that will give it a lasting significance within anthropology and the social sciences."-–Robert Desjarlais, author of The Blind Man: A Phantasmography

"Anthony Stavrianakis writes about the relationships and circumstances that surround assisted suicide in terms that are aware, intimate, ethically nuanced, and ultimately unforgettable." ––Todd Meyers, author of The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy 

List of contents

A Note of Gratitude

Introduction

PART ONE. Restricted Action, an Orientation
Near Death
Parazone
Judgment on Trial

PART TWO. Leaving, a Casuistry
Peter
Fabienne and Sylviane
Clément
Florian

PART THREE. Ethos, Three Studies
Desire | Narcissism
Conduct | Obstinacy
Observation | The Neutral

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Anthony Stavrianakis is an anthropologist and CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, Nanterre, France.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Stavrianakis, Stavrianakis Anthony
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780520344471
• ISBN: 978-0-520-34447-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying