{"product_id":"history-of-suicide-9780801866470","title":"History of Suicide","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinois 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book, lucidly translated, makes compulsive reading. -- Roy Porter The Times of London Minois's book follows the religious, philosophical, literary, and judicial debate for and against self-murder from antiquity to the end of the Enlightenment, demonstrating the close connection between political power, religious authority, social status, and the freedom to die... Minois's study is detailed and thorough... Gory anecdotes and effective reference to overarching intellectual trends make the book edifying and morbidly enjoyable. Kirkus Reviews Minois... has provided a timely chronicle tracing the evolution of societal attitudes toward suicide... Minois writes in an unadorned, concise prose that aids him in treating a serious subject in a serious manner. Although his own convictions on the issue are clear, Minois treats both sides of our current debate with objectivity, understanding, and compassion. Booklist The History of suicide has come of age. After a century of sociological inquiry, historians over the last decade have now embraced this all-too-human act and have produced remarkable results. -- D. J. A. Matthew American Historical Review Minois has succeeded in pulling together a wide range of materials, and in reminding us how elite attitudes to suicide shifted, and that those shifts may well serve as pointers to some more general developments in the intellectual history of Europe. -- J. A. Sharpe Journal of Early Modern History A broad and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities of suicide. Continually reminding us that the legalities and theoretical discussions of suicide often do not coincide with the reality of suicide, Minois focuses his discussion around Hamlet's famous question, 'to be or not to be,' and this proves to be an effective way to organize and present the large and dense amount of material... This book provides a useful and impressive collection of data and an absorbing discussion of attitudes toward voluntary death. -- Elise P. Garrison Religious Studies Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:   Introduction  Part I: Tradition: A Repressed Question  Chapter 1: Suicide in the Middle Ages: Nuances  Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Middle Ages: Between Madness and Despair  Chapter 3: The Classical Heritage: Perfecting the Timely Exit  Part II: The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Stifled  Chapter 4: The Early Renaissance: Rediscovery of the Enigma of Suicide  Chapter 5: To Be or Not To Be: The First Crisis of Conscience in Europe  Chapter 6: The Seventeenth Century: Reaction and Repression  Chapter 7: Substitutes for Suicide in the Seventeenth Century  Part III: The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt-Free  Chapter 8: The Birth of the English Malady, 1680-1720  Chapter 9: The Debate on Suicide in the Enlightenment: From Morality to Medicine  Chapter 10: The Elite: From Philosophical Suicide to Romantic Suicide  Chapter 11: The Common People: The Persistence of Ordinary Suicide  Epilogue: From the French Revolution to the Twentieth Century, or, From Free Debate to Silence","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083641790807,"sku":"9780801866470","price":31.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801866470.jpg?v=1725549570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-of-suicide-9780801866470","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}