Gavin J Fairbairn, Gavin Fairbairn

Contemplating Suicide (eBook, PDF)

The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Suicide has long posed problems for philosophy. Philosophers, such Albert Camus, have situated in the center of the debate about metaphysics and the meaning of life. Hegel understood death to be the raison d'etre of philosophical project. And scores of other since them have treated suicide as central to the West's understanding of itself. In "Contemplating Suicide," Gavin Fairbairn takes a fresh and philosophical look at suicide. He examines the nomenclature of suicide, and how the language of suicide affects our understanding and denigration of "suicidal bodies."
Fairbairn offers cogent reasons for abandoning the mindless use of terms such as "attempted suicide" and "parasuicide," and introduces a number of 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134845088
• Artikelnr.: 42982539

Autorenporträt

Gavin Fairbairn worked in psychiatric social work and special education before taking up his present post at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, where he teaches education. He has published widely on the ethics of the caring professions, including medicine, nursing, social work and special education.

Inhaltsangabe

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 THE 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