Fatal Freedom : The Ethics and Politics of

This eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death will contribute greatly to the debates of some of the most significant ethical issues facing our society: the right to suicide, physician-assisted suicide, psychiatric intervention for suicidal patients, and euthanasia.

Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse

Preface	p. ix
Preface to the Original Edition	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Speaking of Suicide: Our Self-Mutilated Vocabulary	p. 1
Constructing Suicide: What Counts as Killing Oneself?	p. 9
Excusing Suicide: The Fateful Evasion	p. 29
"Preventing" Suicide: "Saving" Lives	p. 45
Prescribing Suicide: Death as Treatment	p. 63
Perverting Suicide: Killing as Treatment	p. 89
Rethinking Suicide: Death Control, the Final Responsibility	p. 107
Appendix	p. 133
Notes	p. 139
Selected Bibliography	p. 157
Author Index	p. 169
Subject Index	p. 173
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Fatal Freedom : The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

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