History of suicide : voluntary death in Western culture
Minois, Georges, 1946-1999
Books
This work examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values - attitudes towards life and death, duty and honour, pain and pleasure. The survey begins in classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was acceptable, and ends with 20th-century moral dilemmas.
Main title:
History of suicide : voluntary death in Western culture / Georges Minois ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Author:
Imprint:
Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999.
Collation:
387 p. ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780801859199
Dewey class:
179.7
Local class:
179.7 Suicide
Language:
EnglishFrench
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
1776373