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Suicide - Lecture Notes 23/1/2020

Leon McRae

Why do men commit suicide more than men?

  • Theres a choice of methods - more violent methods
  • There are notions of masculinity and power (coming into seeking help)

If men have socially determined reasons for dying from suicide.

Any essay on this: talk about article 2 and article 5

What are the assumptions that take place that goes through in the decision frames of medical practicioners when depriving people of liberty?

Deprivation of liberty was previously based on requiring their "free and informed consent"

Savage as a case was looking at informal detention.

What assumptions are we making when we decide on the principles we should use, when making policies and guidelines.

Read the Castell article in the pre reading [] Read about Savage, Read about Rabone

The assumptions we make about people, to give them labels, may get rid of some individual sense of the person, to turn them into their labels. Once someone has these labels, what assumptions are being made?

Risk

Risk can be seen as positive, there is a chance of a positive event coming from the risk

Risk can be seen as negative, there is a chance of a negative event coming from the risk - There is an actuarial judgement as part of this - What's the number of the risk? - Theres a very crude, disrespectful measurement happening here. If all risk means that you add an arbitrary number, what is the point of it? An argument may be if you can get the number for the risk, and the numbers of other risks, you're able to compare and pick options.

TEST - Page 8 - that's the one to use!

Options to answer this essay:

Was this rightly decided? What are the discourses underpinning this decision? (the socio-legal studies)

READ PETER BARTLETT - he's the one talking about patients and "their free consent"

These articles here are "soft law", "non binding law"