Susan K. Morrissey

Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780521349581
• ISBN-10: 0521349583
• Artikelnr.: 33609671

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Public Order and its Malcontents: 1. Victims of their own will
2. Virtue and vice in an age of enlightenment
3. The regulation of suicide
4. Punishing the body, cleansing the conscience
5. Policing and paternalism
6. Arbiters of the self: the suicide note
Part II. Disease of the Century: 7. Sciences of suicide
8. Crime, disease, sin: disputed judgments
9. A ray of light in the kingdom of darkness
Part III. Political Theology and Moral Epidemics: 10. Freedom, violence, and the sacred
11. Children of the twentieth century
Epilogue
Selected bibliography.