{"product_id":"leaving-9780520344471","title":"Leaving","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exquisite compilation of impeccable sentences and lyrical paragraphs that elucidates the complexities of assisted suicide with its clarity, its humanity, its breadth, and its depth.\" * Mortality *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note of Gratitude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. Restricted Action, an Orientation\u003cbr\u003e Near Death\u003cbr\u003e Parazone\u003cbr\u003e Judgment on Trial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. Leaving, a Casuistry\u003cbr\u003e Peter\u003cbr\u003e Fabienne and Sylviane\u003cbr\u003e Clément\u003cbr\u003e Florian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE. Ethos, Three Studies\u003cbr\u003e Desire | Narcissism\u003cbr\u003e Conduct | Obstinacy\u003cbr\u003e Observation | The Neutral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515439997271,"sku":"9780520344471","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leaving-9780520344471","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}