Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Morrissey, Susan K., 1963-
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 9 Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 9.
Subject:	Suicide -- Russia -- Sociological aspects. Suicide -- Russia -- History -- 20th century. Suicide -- history. Social conditions Suicide. Suicide -- Sociological aspects. Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917. Russia (Pre-1917) Russia. Russia (Federation) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813915

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	0511257120 9780511257124 9780511257605 0511257600 9780511496806 051149680X 9786610709854 6610709858 052186545X 9780521865456 9780511319785 0511319789 1107169933 9781107169937 1280709855 9781280709852 0511256051 9780511256059 0511256620 9780511256622 9780521349581 0521349583
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914, placing developments into a pan-European context. It argues against narratives of secularization that read the history of suicide as a trajectory from sin to insanity, crime to social problem, and instead focuses upon the cultural politics of self-destruction. Suicide - the act, the body, the socio-medical problem - became the site on which diverse authorities were established and contested, not just the priest or the doctor but also the sovereign, the public, and the individual. This panoramic history of modern Russia, told through the prism of suicide, rethinks the interaction between cultural forms, individual agency, and systems of governance.
Other form:	Print version: Morrissey, Susan K., 1963- Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 052186545X 9780521865456

Table of Contents:

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.

Suicide and the body politic in Imperial Russia /

Similar Items