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9780943549873

Choosing Death

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  • ISBN13:

    9780943549873

  • ISBN10:

    0943549876

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-03-01
  • Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr

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Summary

Because of Geneva's uniquely rich and well-organised sources, this is the first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for pre-modern Europe. Watt places his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply, modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes towards it -- thorough secularised, medicalised, and stripped of diabolical undertones -- and the frequency of it.

Author Biography

Jeffrey R. Watt is an associate professor in history at the University of Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(14)
Suicides, Homicides, and Accidents: The Data
15(52)
The Judicial and Intellectual Dimensions of Suicide
67(59)
The Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions of Suicide
126(87)
The Cultural Dimensions of Suicide: Part 1
213(39)
The Cultural Dimensions of Suicide: Part 2
252(69)
Epilogue 321(6)
About the Author 327(2)
Bibliography 329

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