The Anatomy of Suicide

About this eBook

Author

Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Suicide

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50907

Release Date

January 12, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ANATOMY OF SUICIDE:
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ERRATA.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. SUICIDES OF THE ANCIENTS.—ANCIENT LAWS AND OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF SUICIDE.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. WRITERS IN DEFENCE OF SUICIDE.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. SUICIDE A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN.—IT IS NOT AN ACT OF COURAGE.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN MENTAL STATES IN INDUCING THE DISPOSITION TO SUICIDE.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. IMITATIVE, OR EPIDEMIC SUICIDE.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. SUICIDE FROM FASCINATION.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENTHUSIASM AND MENTAL IRRITABILITY WHICH, IF ENCOURAGED, WOULD LEAD TO SUICIDE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. PHYSICAL CAUSES OF SUICIDE.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. MORAL TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL MANIA.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF THE SUICIDAL DISPOSITION.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. IS THE ACT OF SUICIDE THE RESULT OF INSANITY?
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. SUICIDE IN CONNEXION WITH MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. STATISTICS OF SUICIDE.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. APPEARANCES PRESENTED AFTER DEATH IN THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. SINGULAR CASES OF SUICIDE.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. CAN SUICIDE BE PREVENTED BY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS?—INFLUENCE OF MORAL INSTRUCTION.—CONCLUSION.
21. 21.FOOTNOTES:

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