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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Histoire du suicide. English".
- catalog contributor b10886749.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-372) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "387 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "History of suicide.".
- catalog identifier "0801859190 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "History of suicide.".
- catalog isPartOf "Medicine & Culture".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "History of suicide.".
- catalog subject "179.7 21".
- catalog subject "HV 6545 M666h 1999a".
- catalog subject "RC569 .M55 1999".
- catalog subject "Right to Die".
- catalog subject "Right to die.".
- catalog subject "Suicide History.".
- catalog subject "Suicide history".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Histoire du suicide. English".
- catalog title "History of suicide : voluntary death in Western culture / Georges Minois ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".