[PDF.61aj] History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture (Medicine and Culture)

History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture (Medicine and Culture)

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 | #2377157 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  1998-12-18 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.06 x6.26 x9.29l, | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent history!|By Lyndell Ewin|I am doing my honours thesis on the representation of suicide in Shakespeare. This book is excellent for giving a comprehensive look at the history of suicide. It reads really well and is difficult to put down. For my own purposes, there was a lot of info on Shakespeare and it was really useful material. If you're not in the realm of needing|From Booklist|Suicide, or "self murder," was viewed as an honorable death in ancient times. By the high Middle Ages, however, the corpses of suicides were mutilated and buried in unconsecrated grounds. Now, of cou

In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values--attitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was acceptable--even heroic--under some circumstances. With the rise of Christianity, however, suicide was unequivocally condemned as self-murder and an insult to God. With the Renaissance...

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