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Contemplating suicide : the language and ethics of self-harm /
"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." "Fairbair...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Colección: | Social ethics and policy series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203426371 9780203426371 9786610066889 6610066884 9780415106054 0415106052 9780415106061 0415106060 1134845073 9781134845071 1134845081 9781134845088 0203298985 9780203298985 1280066881 9781280066887 |