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12 lis 2013 · In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.
1 gru 1999 · Statistics about suicide, we find, have been obfuscated not only by religious and political norms but also by the means available by social class to die. For instance, in the Middle Ages, suicide appears to have been rampant among commoners, but not among nobles, who had means of self-homicide.
16 sty 2019 · One, a person could kill himself, yanking the cord on the light show of reality. Two, a person could—like Kierkegaard or Dostoyevsky—commit “philosophical suicide,” embracing an ...
1 wrz 2016 · The tenet of the historian, one must learn from the past, should not be dismissed readily when it comes to suicide. An exhaustive list of famous people who have taken their own lives, from ancient times through to today, would be depressingly long.
1 wrz 2016 · An exhaustive list of famous people who have taken their own lives, from ancient times through to today, would be depressingly long.
10 gru 2008 · This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods.
Suicide has long been a topic of social discourse, with pendulating views of the phenomenon. This chapter highlights how social, cultural, and religious views on the morality of suicide shifted over time and discusses today’s current understanding of suicide as a public health crisis.
