Contemplating suicide : the language and ethics of self-harm
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Contemplating suicide : the language and ethics of self-harm
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- Contemplating suicide : the language and ethics of self-harm
- Title remainder
- the language and ethics of self-harm
- Statement of responsibility
- Gavin J. Fairbairn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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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- MERUC
- Dewey number
- 179/.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6545
- LC item number
- .F33 1995eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Series statement
- Social ethics and policy series
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