Fatal Freedom:
The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publication Date: 1999/2002
Paperback Ed.: Syracuse University Press (2002)
Hardcover Ed.: Praeger Trade (1999)
Pages: 177 (Hard Cover: 192)
ISBN: 0815607555 / 0275966461

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Table of Contents

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

1. Speaking of Suicide: Our Self-Mutilated Vocabulary

2. Constructing Suicide: What Counts as Killing Oneself?

3. Excusing Suicide: The Fateful Evasion

4. “Preventing” Suicide: “Saving” Lives

5. Prescribing Suicide: Death as Treatment

6. Perverting Suicide: Killing as Treatment

7. Rethinking Suicide: Death Control, the Final Responsibility

• Appendix

• Notes

• Selected Bibliography

• Author Index

• Subject Index
  

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