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77'Self-manslaughter' and the forensic classification of self-inflicted deathsJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (3): 155-157. 2007.By emphasising the intentions underlying suicidal behaviour, suicidal death is distinguished from accidental death in standard philosophical accounts on the nature of suicide. A crucial third class of self-produced deaths, deaths in which agents act neither intentionally nor accidentally to produce their own deaths, is left out by such accounts. Based on findings from psychiatry, many life-threatening behaviours, if and when they lead to the agent’s death, are suggested to be neither intentional…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
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The Politics of Race |
Moral Emotion, Misc |
Kantian Ethics |
Equality |
Punishment in Criminal Law |
Suicide |
Death and Dying |
Paternalism |
Morality of Procreation |