| Description |
387 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Medicine & Culture |
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Medicine & culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-372) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Tradition: a repressed question -- ch. 1. Suicide in the Middle Ages: nuances -- ch. 2. Legacy of the Middle Ages: between madness and despair -- ch. 3. Classical heritage: perfecting the timely exit -- pt. 2. Renaissance: a question raised, then stifled -- ch. 4. Early Renaissance: rediscovery of the enigma of suicide -- ch. 5. To be or not to be: the first crisis of conscience in Europe -- ch. 6. Seventeenth century: reaction and repression -- ch. 7. Substitutes for suicide in the seventeenth century -- pt. 3. Enlightenment: suicide updated and guilt-free -- ch. 8. Birth of the English malady, 1680-1720 -- ch. 9. Debate on suicide in the Enlightenment: from morality to medicine -- ch. 10. Elite: from philosophical suicide to romantic suicide -- ch. 11. Common people: the persistence of ordinary suicide. |
| Summary |
In his illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values - perspectives on life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois addresses a wide range of questions drawn from theology, law, literature, science, and medicine. Under what circumstances has suicide been honored or condemned? On what grounds, if any, can it be justified? Under what conditions do suicides increase or decrease? Does legislation make any difference? Does religion? How does the historical record disclose or obscure suicides? Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history - the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die. |
| Processing Action |
Self-Renewing 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Suicide -- History.
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Right to die.
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Right to die. (OCoLC)fst01097893
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Suicide. (OCoLC)fst01137578
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Zelfmoord.
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Suicide -- history. (DNLM)D013405Q000266
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Right to Die. (DNLM)D012297
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Histoire du suicide. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Minois, Georges, 1946- Histoire du suicide. English. History of suicide. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)607799465 |
| ISBN |
0801859190 (alk. paper) |
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9780801859199 (alk. paper) |
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9780801866470 |
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0801866472 |
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