Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws

Examining Current Approaches to Suicide in Policy and Law

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20032981
AutoresSusan Stefan (autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Páginas552
Fecha de publicación2016-03-23
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaRational Suicide, Irrational Laws: Examining Current Approaches to Suicide in Policy and Law (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199981199.001.0001
OpenAlexW4234705062
Open LibraryOL25939338M
ISBN9780199981199
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

This book is for policymakers, lawyers, doctors, mental health professionals, hospice workers, and for anyone who has thought about suicide or has lost someone to suicide. Based on surveys and interviews of more than 300 suicide attempt survivors, doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals, it painstakingly exposes the irrationality of current policies and laws about suicide, including assisted suicide. The author suggests 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, encouraging universities to stop forcing suicidal students to leave, and focusing on approaches to suicidal people that have helped them rather than assuming suicidality is always a symptom of an underlying mental illness. The book includes a comparison of our own policies with those of countries in Europe, Asia, and Central America, and covers the 2015 legalization of assisted suicide in Canada. The book includes a model statute, seven in-depth studies of people whose cases presented profound ethical, legal, and policy dilemmas, and more than a thousand cases interpreting rights and responsibilities relating to suicide, especially in the area of psychiatric malpractice

Cognitive reframing · Criminology · Irrationality · Legalization · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Psychiatry · Rationality · Statute · Ethics in medical practice · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology · Forensic psychology · Forensic Science · Government policy · law and legislation · Legislation & jurisprudence · Prevention · Public policy · Suicide · Suicide, prevention