Leaving : a narrative of assisted suicide /

"The first book-length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying, Leaving is a narrative account of five case histories of people who ended their lives with assistance in Switzerland. Anthony Stavrianakis places his narrative within a larger story about how to approach and understand th...

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Main Author: Stavrianakis, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2019]
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