Gavin Fairbairn worked in psychiatric social work and special education before taking up his present post at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, where he teaches education. He has published widely on the ethics of the caring professions, including medicine, nursing, social work and special education.

• 1 SUICIDE, LANGUAGE AND ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION 2 MORALS AND MEANS 3 WHERE DO OUR VIEWS OF SUICIDE COME FROM? 4 OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM 5 SUICIDE AND INTENTION 6 DEFINING SUICIDE 7 EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM 8 LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA 9 VARIETIES OF SUICIDE 10 DIGGING UP THE PAST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUICIDE 11 THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE 12 AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS 13 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 1: ARGUMENTS FROM AUTONOMY 14 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 2: SELF DEFENCE AND THE DEFENCE OF OTHERS

Gavin Fairbairn worked in psychiatric social work and special education before taking up his present post at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, where he teaches education. He has published widely on the ethics of the caring professions, including medicine, nursing, social work and special education.

• 1 SUICIDE, LANGUAGE AND ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION 2 MORALS AND MEANS 3 WHERE DO OUR VIEWS OF SUICIDE COME FROM? 4 OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM 5 SUICIDE AND INTENTION 6 DEFINING SUICIDE 7 EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM 8 LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA 9 VARIETIES OF SUICIDE 10 DIGGING UP THE PAST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUICIDE 11 THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE 12 AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS 13 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 1: ARGUMENTS FROM AUTONOMY 14 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 2: SELF DEFENCE AND THE DEFENCE OF OTHERS

Gavin Fairbairn worked in psychiatric social work and special education before taking up his present post at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, where he teaches education. He has published widely on the ethics of the caring professions, including medicine, nursing, social work and special education.

• 1 SUICIDE, LANGUAGE AND ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION 2 MORALS AND MEANS 3 WHERE DO OUR VIEWS OF SUICIDE COME FROM? 4 OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM 5 SUICIDE AND INTENTION 6 DEFINING SUICIDE 7 EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM 8 LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA 9 VARIETIES OF SUICIDE 10 DIGGING UP THE PAST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUICIDE 11 THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE 12 AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS 13 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 1: ARGUMENTS FROM AUTONOMY 14 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 2: SELF DEFENCE AND THE DEFENCE OF OTHERS