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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Stefan, Susan
Titre(s) : Rational suicide, irrational laws [Texte imprimé] : examining current approaches to suicide in policy and law / Susan Stefan
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXVI-552 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : American psychology-law society series
Lien à la collection : American psychology-law society series
Comprend : "Sane" and "Insane" Suicide: The Law of Competence ; The Right to Die, Involuntary
Commitment, and the Constitution ; Assisted Suicide in the States ; International
Perspectives in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia ; Assisted Suicide and the Medical
Profession ; Mental Health Professionals and Suicide ; Types of Suicide ; Discrimination
on the Basis of Suicidality ; Prevention and Treatment: Policy and Legal Barriers
; Conclusion: People with Psychiatric Diagnoses and Assisted Suicide ; Appendix A:
Model Statutes ; Appendix B: Survey of People Who Have Attempted Suicide ; 1. Survey:
Experiences with Suicide ; 2. Final Results of Survey ; Table of Case.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 521-540, et notes bibliogr. Index
"When should we try to prevent suicide? Should it be facilitated for some people,
in some circumstances? For the last forty years, law and policy on suicide have followed
two separate and distinct tracks: laws aimed at preventing suicide and, increasingly,
laws aimed at facilitating it. In Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws legal scholar
Susan Stefan argues that these laws co-exist because they are based on two radically
disparate conceptions of the would-be suicide. This is the first book that unifies
policies and laws, including constitutional law, criminal law, malpractice law, and
civil commitment law, toward people who want to end their lives. Based on the author's
expert understanding of mental health and legal systems, analysis of related national
and international laws and policy, and surveys and interviews with more than 300 suicide-attempt
survivors, doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals, Rational Suicide, Irrational
Laws exposes the counterproductive nature of current policies and laws about suicide.
Stefan proposes and defends specific reforms, including increased protection of mental
health professionals from liability, increased protection of suicidal people from
coercive interventions, reframing medical involvement in assisted suicide, and focusing
on approaches to suicidal people that help them rather than assuming suicidality is
always a symptom of mental illness. Stefan compares policies and laws in different
states in the U.S. and examines the policies and laws of other countries in Europe,
Asia, and the Americas, including the 2015 legalization of assisted suicide in Canada.
The book includes model statutes, seven in-depth studies of people whose cases presented
profound ethical, legal, and policy dilemmas, and over a thousand cases interpreting
rights and responsibilities relating to suicide, especially in the area of psychiatric
malpractice" ; "Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws argues that laws aimed at preventing
suicide and laws aimed at facilitating it co-exist because they are based on two radically
disparate conceptions of the would-be suicide. This is the first book that unifies
policies and laws toward people who want to end their lives"
Sujet(s) : Suicide -- Droit -- États-Unis
Suicide -- Philosophie
Suicide -- Prévention -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199981199. - ISBN 0199981191 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45082986b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45082986
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