Leaving : A Narrative of Assisted Suicide /

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The first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stavrianakis, Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Temas:
Assisted suicide > Switzerland > 21st century.
Suicide victims > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
anthropology.
assisted suicide.
casuistry.
death with dignity.
death.
doctors.
ethics.
euthanasia.
exit.
grief.
healthcare.
human life.
jesuit moral theology.
max weber.
medical ethics.
medicine.
morality.
nonfiction.
physician assisted suicide.
quality of life.
right to die.
social science.
suicide.
swiss academy of medical sciences.
swiss medical association.
switzerland.
terminal illness.
voluntary assisted dying.
voluntary death.
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Sumario:The first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide, which he characterizes as operating in a political, legal, and medical "parazone," adjacent to medical care and expertise. Frequently, observers too rapidly integrate assisted suicide into moral positions that reflect sociological and psychological commonplaces about individual choice and its social determinants. Leaving engages with core early twentieth-century psychoanalytic and sociological texts arguing for a contemporary approach to the phenomenon of voluntary death, seeking to learn from such conceptual repertoires, as well as to acknowledge their limits. Leaving concludes on the anthropological question of how to account for the ethics of assistance with suicide: to grasp the actuality and composition of the ethical work that goes on in the configuration of a subject, one who is making a judgment about dying, with other participants and observers, the anthropologist included.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 p.)
ISBN:9780520975545
9783110737769
9783110704716
9783110704518
9783110704723
9783110704549
9783110690415
Acceso:restricted access

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