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History of Suicide : Voluntary Death in Western Culture (Medicine and Culture)
History of Suicide Voluntary Death in Western Culture - Medicine and Culture
Author: Georges Minois
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801859199
ISBN-10: 0801859190
Publication Date: 12/18/1998
Pages: 400
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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