Download or read book A Defense Against the Temptation to Self murther written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A defense against the temptation to Self Murther Together with some reflections on excess in strong liquors duelling and other practices akin to this heinous sin written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Defence Against the Temptation to Self murther written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethics of Suicide written by M. Pabst Battin and published by . This book was released on 2015 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.
Download or read book The History of Suicide in England 1650 1850 Part I Vol 4 written by Mark Robson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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.
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.
Download or read book The History of Suicide in England 1650 1850 Part I Vol 3 written by Mark Robson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Works of the Rev Isaac Watts D D in Nine Volumes written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Download or read book Choosing Death written by Jeffrey R. Watt and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties against the bodies and estates of those who took their lives. According to beliefs shared by theologian John Calvin, magistrates, and common folk, self-murder was caused by demon possession. Similar views and practices were found among both Protestants and Catholics throughout Reformation Europe. By contrast, in the late eighteenth century many philosophies defended the right to take one's life under certain circumstances; Geneva’s magistrates in effect decriminalized suicide; and even commoners blamed suicide on mental illness or personal reversals, not on satanic influences. Watt uses Geneva's uniquely rich and well-organized sources in this first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for premodern Europe. He 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, early modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes toward it—thoroughly secularized, medicalized, and stripped of diabolical undertones—and the frequency of it.
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Lord Rolle at Bicton House Devon written by John ROLLE (Baron Rolle.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalog of British Devotional and Religious Books in German Translation from the Reformation to 1750 written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
