Description |
387 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Medicine & culture
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Note |
Originally titled: Histoire du suicide. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-372) and index. |
Contents |
Tradition : a repressed question -- Suicide in the Middle Ages : nuances -- The legacy of the Middle Ages : between madness and despair -- The classical heritage : perfecting the timely exit -- The Renaissance : a question raised, then stifled -- The early Renaissance : rediscovery of the enigma of suicide -- To be or not to be : the first crisis of conscience in Europe -- The seventeenth century : reaction and repression -- Substitutes for suicide in the seventeenth century -- The Enlightenment : suicide updated and guilt-free -- The birth of the English malady, 1680-1720 -- The debate on suicide in the Enlightenment : from morality to medicine -- The elite : from philosophical suicide to romantic suicide -- The common people : the persistence of ordinary suicide -- Epilogue : from the French Revolution to the twentieth century, or, from free debate to silence. |
Subject |
Suicide -- History.
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Right to die.
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ISBN |
0801859190 (alk. paper) |
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