LEADER 04304nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910967017703321 005 20251117115858.0 010 $a1-134-84507-3 010 $a1-134-84508-1 010 $a0-203-29898-5 010 $a1-280-06688-1 010 $a0-203-42637-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203426371 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11236751 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269522 035 $a(PQKB)10305871 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC179480 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL179480 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017193 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL6688 035 $a(OCoLC)437082103 035 $a(OCoLC)559302345 035 $a(BIP)63722725 035 $a(BIP)1807775 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001726 100 $a19940603d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContemplating suicide $ethe language and ethics of self-harm /$fGavin J. Fairbairn 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1995 215 $axiii, 209 p 225 1 $aSocial ethics and policy series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-415-10605-2 311 08$a0-415-10606-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-204) and index. 327 $achapter 1 SUICIDE, LANGUAGE AND ETHICS -- chapter 2 MORALS AND MEANS -- chapter 3 WHERE DO OUR VIEWS OF SUICIDE COME FROM? -- chapter 4 OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM -- chapter 5 SUICIDE AND INTENTION -- chapter 6 DEFINING SUICIDE -- chapter 7 EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM -- chapter 8 LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA -- chapter 9 VARIETIES OF SUICIDE -- chapter 10 DIGGING UP THE PAST -- chapter 11 THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE -- chapter 12 AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS -- chapter 13 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 1 -- chapter 14 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 2. 330 $aSuicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicidal self harm. His view is distinctive in not emphasising external facts: the presence or absence of a corpse, along with evidence that the person who has become a corpse, intended to do so. It emphasises the intentions that the person had in acting, rather than the consequences that follow from those actions. Much of the book is devoted to an attempt to construct a natural history of suicidal self harm and to examine some of the ethical issues that it raises. Fairbairn sets his philosophical reflections against a background of practical experience in the caring professions and uses a storytelling approach in offering a critique of the current language of self harm along with some new ways of thinking. Among other things he offers cogent reasons for abandoning the mindless use of terms such as attempted suicide and parasuicide , and introduces a number of new terms including cosmic roulette , which he uses to describe a family of human acts in which people gamble with their lives. By elaborating a richer model of suicidal self harm than most philosophers and most practitioners of caring professions currently inhabit, Fairbairn has contributed to the development of understanding in this area. Among other things a richer model and vocabulary may reduce the likelihood that those who come into contact with suicidal self harm, will believe that familiarity with the physical facts of the matter - the actions of the suicider and the presence or absence of a corpse - is always sufficient to justify a definite conclusion about the nature of the self harming act. 410 0$aSocial ethics and policy series. 606 $aSuicide$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aSuicidal behavior 615 0$aSuicide$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aSuicidal behavior. 676 $a179/.7 700 $aFairbairn$b Gavin$0852297 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967017703321 996 $aContemplating suicide$94475957 997 $aUNINA