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Author Minois, Georges, 1946-

Title History of suicide : voluntary death in Western culture / Georges Minois ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Imprint Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  179.7 M666h  1999    ---  Available
Description 387 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Medicine & culture
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.
Right to die.
ISBN 0801859190 (alk. paper)

 
    
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