TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - From act to fact: The transformation of suicide in western thought
JO  - Historical reflections
A1  - Gordon, D.
SP  - 33
EP  - 51
VL  - 42
IS  - 2
N2  - The article is about the moral debate over suicide, from Augustine to the present. It assesses critically the transformation of a humanistic debate into a scientific one. Among the figures who receive detailed attention are Augustine, Montaigne, Donne, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Durkheim. © 2016, Berghahn Journals, Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0315-7997
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2016.420203
ID  - ref1
ER  -