Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies) - Hardcover
WATT, J. R. CHOOSING DEATH. SUICIDE AND CALVINISM IN EARLY MODERN GENEVA [HARDBACK]. KIRKSVILLE, MO, 2001, xii 361 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.
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Synopsis:
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.
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- PublisherTruman State University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0943549817
- ISBN 13 9780943549811
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages364
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