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"Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide, Gavin Fairbairn takes a fresh look at suicidal self harm. His view is distinctive in emphasising the intentions that a person has in acting, rather than external facts." "Fairbairn constructs a natural history of suicidal self harm and examines some of the ethical issues it raises. He sets his philosophical reflections against a background of experience in the caring professions and uses a storytelling approach in offering a critique of the current language of self harm. He offers cogent reasons for abandoning the mindless use of terms such as attempted suicide and parasuicide, and introduces a number of new terms including cosmic roulette, which he uses to describe a family of human acts in which people gamble with their lives." "By elaborating a richer model of suicidal self harm than most philosophers and practitioners of caring professions currently inhabit, Fairbairn makes a significant contribution to the development of understanding in this area."--Jacket
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monografia Rebiun39132785 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39132785 m o d cr cn||||||||| 940603s1995 enk ob 001 0 eng d 94021094 56566647 232161283 252912083 456011203 474414571 646709603 756859495 888495427 961638754 962649841 1157149185 1259082506 0203426371 electronic bk.) 9780203426371 electronic bk.) 0415106052 hard) 0415106060 pbk.) 9786610066889 6610066884 9780415106054 0415106052 9780415106061 0415106060 1134845073 9781134845071 1134845081 9781134845088 0203298985 9780203298985 1280066881 9781280066887 10.4324/9780203426371 doi AU@ 000053229268 AU@ 000054171394 DEBBG BV043171144 DEBSZ 422407224 MERUC eng pn MERUC CCO E7B OCLCQ IOD CUY MT4IT DKDLA OCLCQ N$T YDXCP QE2 IDEBK OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO TYFRS OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ AZK LOA INTCL JBG COCUF AUW MOR PIFBR OTZ OCLCQ U3W CN8ML STF WRM VNS OCLCQ VTS CEF NRAMU VT2 LHU FVL OCLCQ ICG AGLDB TKN G3B CNTRU OCLCQ K6U BRX INARC OCLCO OCLCQ SFB OCLCQ QGK OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ PHI 005000 bisacsh 179/.7 20 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3yD6GmmXwwgDWbvBjFxQgwvq6 Fairbairn, Gavin Contemplating suicide the language and ethics of self-harm Gavin J. Fairbairn London New York Routledge 1995 London New York London New York Routledge 1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) 1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Social ethics and policy series Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index Machine generated contents note:) 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.) 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 "Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide, Gavin Fairbairn takes a fresh look at suicidal self harm. His view is distinctive in emphasising the intentions that a person has in acting, rather than external facts." "Fairbairn constructs a natural history of suicidal self harm and examines some of the ethical issues it raises. He sets his philosophical reflections against a background of experience in the caring professions and uses a storytelling approach in offering a critique of the current language of self harm. He offers cogent reasons for abandoning the mindless use of terms such as attempted suicide and parasuicide, and introduces a number of new terms including cosmic roulette, which he uses to describe a family of human acts in which people gamble with their lives." "By elaborating a richer model of suicidal self harm than most philosophers and practitioners of caring professions currently inhabit, Fairbairn makes a significant contribution to the development of understanding in this area."--Jacket English Suicide- Moral and ethical aspects Suicidal behavior Suicide, Attempted Suicide- Aspect moral Comportement suicidaire PHILOSOPHY- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Suicidal behavior. Suicide- Moral and ethical aspects. Print version Fairbairn, Gavin. Contemplating suicide. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 (DLC) 94021094 Social ethics and policy series