Author:
Barry, Robert Laurence.
Imprint:New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c1994.
Descriptionxxii, 353 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: The New Face of Suicide -- 1. Defining Suicide in the Catholic Context. Defining Suicide Broadly. Narrow Definitions of Suicide. A More Adequate Definition of Suicide. What Counts as a Suicide -- 2. The Changing Face of Despair: The Catholic Response to Ancient Suicide. Suicide in Preliterate Society. Hellenistic Suicide: A Schizophrenic Approach. Roman Suicide: Libertinism and the Trivialization of Human Life. The Judeo-Christian Response to Ancient Suicide -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Suicide. Suicide in Japan. Suicide in India. Renaissance Suicide and the Age of Melancholy. The Enlightenment and the Reemergence of Suicide. Romantic Suicide: The New Circumcellions. Absurdity, Dada, and Suicide. Modern Suicide: The New Dilemma -- 4. Catholicism and the Morality of Suicide. A Survey of Contemporary Literature. The Biblical Teachings on Suicide. The Catholic Moral Arguments against Suicide. The Critique of the Catholic Teachings on Suicide -- 5. The Rationality of Suicide. Suicide as a Rational Act. Suicide as an Irrational Action. The Rationality of Suicide from a Catholic Perspective -- 6. The Voluntariness of Rational Suicide. The Suicidal Decision: A Psychological Portrait Suicide and Voluntariness. When is Suicide a Voluntary Decision? The Hard Cases -- 7. Indirectly Intended Analgesic Suicide: Clarifying the Principles. Recent Developments in Analgesic Therapy. Questions Concerning Indirectly Lethal Analgesia -- 8. The Social Dynamics of Rational Suicide. Killing to Control Suffering: An Uncontrollable Practice. Protecting the Common Law Tradition on Suicide. Protecting the Integrity of the Healing Professions. The Social Benefits of Suicide: Claims and Counterclaims -- 9. Proclaiming Hope and New Life to the Dying: Suicide and Pastoral Care. The Doctrines of "Euthanasia and Pastoral Care" Christian Suicide: Problems and Paradoxes. The Theology of "Euthanasia and Pastoral Care" Pastoral Ministry to the Suicidal: Shepherding to Hope.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
