TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
Copyright © 2023 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
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Published 2023
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Baril, Alexandre, 1979– author. | McRuer, Robert, 1966– writer of foreword.
Title: Undoing suicidism : a trans, queer, crip approach to rethinking (assisted) suicide / Alexandre Baril ; foreword by Robert McRuer.
Description: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023. | This book includes some material from previously published articles/chapters. An earlier version of Chapter 1 (and short passages in other chapters and the introduction) previously appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly. An earlier version of Chapter 2 (and a passage in the introduction) previously appeared in Somatechnics. Some other short passages previously appeared in Criminologie (in French), Frontières (in French), and The Disability Bioethics Reader. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book proposes a radical queercrip reconceptualization of suicide and assisted suicide, offering the first comprehensive antisuicidist and intersectional theorization of its kind. Alexandre Baril argues that current logics of prevention create a system of structural suicidism that oppresses, stigmatizes, and pathologizes marginalized individuals and communities experiencing suicidality”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022056770 | ISBN 9781439924068 (cloth) | ISBN 9781439924075 (paperback) | ISBN 9781439924082 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Suicide—Prevention—Moral and ethical aspects. | Rational suicide—Moral and ethical aspects. | Assisted suicide—Moral and ethical aspects. | Right to die—Moral and ethical aspects. | Suicide—Public opinion. | People with disabilities—Suicidal behavior. | Sexual minorities—Suicidal behavior.
Classification: LCC HV6545 .B2525 2023 | DDC 362.28086/6—dc23/eng/20230308
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022056770
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