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Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia /
In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This 2007 book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge social and cultural histories ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Public order and its malcontents
- Victims of their own will
- Virtue and vice in an age of Enlightenment
- The regulation of suicide
- Punishing the body, cleansing the conscience
- Policing and paternalism
- Arbiters of the self: the suicide note
- Part II. Disease of the century
- Sciences of suicide
- Crime, disease, sin: disputed judgments
- A ray of light in the kingdom of darkness
- Part III. Political theology and moral epidemics
- Freedom, death, and the sacred
- Children of the twentieth century.