Outline the following with sufficient detail:
(a) Beauchamp and Childress’ definition of paternalism;
(b) the distinction between soft and hard paternalism;
(c) the three general positions within the literature concerning the justification of paternalism;
(d) the conditions under which hard paternalism is justified in health care (according to Beauchamp and Childress); and
(e) how paternalistic intervention relates to acts of attempted suicide.
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