ABSTRACT

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 7 contains 1800–1850: Legal Contexts, Religious Writings and Medical Writers.

part |39 pages

Legal Contexts

chapter |25 pages

Impey, The Office and Duty of Coroners

part |71 pages

Religious Writings

chapter |10 pages

Smith, ‘On Suicide’

chapter |12 pages

Anon., A Remedy for Self-Murder

chapter |22 pages

Piggott, Suicide and Its Antidotes

chapter |27 pages

Burial Rites Debate

part |247 pages

Medical Writers

chapter |38 pages

Burrows, ‘Suicide’

chapter |16 pages

Millingen, ‘Remarkable Suicides’

chapter |193 pages

Winslow, The Anatomy of Suicide