Contemplating Suicide - The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm

List of contents

1 SUICIDE, LANGUAGE AND ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION 2 MORALS AND MEANS 3 WHERE DO OUR VIEWS OF SUICIDE COME FROM? 4 OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM 5 SUICIDE AND INTENTION 6 DEFINING SUICIDE 7 EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM 8 LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA 9 VARIETIES OF SUICIDE 10 DIGGING UP THE PAST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUICIDE 11 THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE 12 AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS 13 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 1: ARGUMENTS FROM AUTONOMY 14 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 2: SELF DEFENCE AND THE DEFENCE OF OTHERS

About the author

Gavin Fairbairn worked in psychiatric social work and special education before taking up his present post at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, where he teaches education. He has published widely on the ethics of the caring professions, including medicine, nursing, social work and special education.

Summary

Fairbairn takes a fresh look at suicidal self-harm and reaches many novel conclusions about the current language and ethics of suicide and contributing greatly to the development of understanding in this sensitive area.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Fairbairn, Gavin J Fairbairn
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.1995
• EAN: 9780415106054
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10605-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Series: Social Ethics and Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying