History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture

by Georges Minois

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801866472
• ISBN13: 9780801866470
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher