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Author : Caleb Fleming
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book A Dissertation Upon the Unnatural Crime of Self-murder written by Caleb Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896867
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Art of Suicide written by Ron Brown and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-01-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Suicide is a history of the visual representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the 20th century. After looking at instances of voluntary death in ancient Greece, Ron Brown discusses the contrast between the extraordinary absence of such events in early Christianity and the proliferation of images of biblical suicides in the late medieval era. He emphasizes how differing attitudes to suicide in the early modern world slowly merged, and pays particular attention to the one-time chasm between so-called heroic suicide and self-destruction as a "crying crime". Brown tracks the changes surrounding the perception of suicide into the pivotal Romantic era, with its notions of the "man of feeling", ready to hurl himself into the abyss over a woman or an unfinishable poem. After the First World War, the meaning of death and attitudes towards suicide changed radically, and in time this led to its decriminalization. The 20th century in fact witnessed a growing ambivalence towards suicidal acts, which today are widely regarded either as expressions of a death-wish or as cries for help. Brown concludes with Warhol's picture of Marilyn Monroe and the videos taken by the notorious Dr Kevorkian.
Author : James A. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502693
Total Pages : 1541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century written by James A. Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 1541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published in every area of philosophy, from the theory of vision to theories of political resistance, from the philosophy of language to accounts of ways of governing the passions. The philosophers of eighteenth-century Britain were enormously influential, in France, in Italy, in Germany, and in America. Their ideas and arguments remain a powerful presence in philosophy three centuries later. This Oxford Handbook is the first book ever to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. It provides accounts of the writings of all the major figures, but also puts those figures in the context provided by a host of writers less well known today. The book has five principal sections: 'Logic and Metaphysics', 'The Passions', 'Morals', 'Criticism', and 'Politics'. Each section comprises four chapters, providing detailed coverage of all of the important aspects of its subject matter. There is also an introductory section, with chapters on the general character of philosophizing in eighteenth-century Britain, and a concluding section on the important question of the relation at this time between philosophy and religion. The authors of the chapters are experts in their fields. They include philosophers, historians, political theorists, and literary critics, and they teach in colleges and universities in Britain, in Europe, and in North America.
Author : Margaret Pabst Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199385815
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Suicide written by Margaret Pabst Battin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.
Author : Alfred Russell Smith
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Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare, Curious and Valuable Old Books on Sale by --- written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Russell Smith
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Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare Curious and Valuable Old Books on Sale by Alfred Russell Smith written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Robson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100056004X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850, Part II vol 5 written by Mark Robson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2013. This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed. Part II, Volume 5 contains the period of 1750–1799: Sermons, Discourses, Essays and Treatises.
Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813517575
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Framing Disease written by Charles E. Rosenberg and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many diseases discussed here--endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis--came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. As these essays show, the concept of disease has also been used to frame culturally resonant behaviors: suicide, homosexuality, anorexia nervosa, chronic fatigue syndrome. Disease is also framed by public policy, as the cases of industrial disability and of forensic psychiatry demonstrate. Medical institutions, as managers of people with disease, come to have vested interests in diagnoses, as the histories of facilities to treat tuberculosis or epilepsy reveal. Ultimately, the existence and conquest of disease serves to frame a society's sense of its own "healthiness" and to give direction to social reforms.
Author : Robert Watt
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Total Pages : 956 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Watt
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Total Pages : 960 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Watt
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Total Pages : 954 pages
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Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136093168
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England written by Frank McLynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
Author : Ian Donaldson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rapes of Lucretia written by Ian Donaldson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapes of Lucretia A Myth and its Transformations
Author : Donna T. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185529
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Aristocratic Vice written by Donna T. Andrew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough to punish those perpetrators who were members of the elite. In this exciting new book, Andrew explores each vice’s treatment by the press at the time and shows how a century of public attacks on aristocratic vices promoted a sense of “class superiority” among the soon-to-emerge British middle class. “Donna Andrew continues to illuminate the mental landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. . . . No historian of the period has made greater or more effective use of the newspaper press as a source for cultural history than she. This book is evidently the product of a great deal of work and is likely to stimulate further work.”—Joanna Innes, University of Oxford /div
Author : Samuel Ernest Sprott
Publisher : Open Court Publishing Company
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The English Debate on Suicide written by Samuel Ernest Sprott and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 1961 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
