Leaving

A Narrative of Assisted Suicide
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-34446-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stavrianakis, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note of Gratitude

Introduction

PART ONE. Restricted Action, an Orientation
Near Death
Parazone
Judgment on Trial

PART TWO. Leaving, a Casuistry
Peter
Fabienne and Sylviane
Clément
Florian

PART THREE. Ethos, Three Studies
Desire Narcissism
Conduct Obstinacy
Observation The Neutral

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Stavrianakis is an anthropologist and CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, Nanterre, France.