History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture (Paperback, Revised)

Introduction
Part I. Tradition: A Repressed Question
Chapter 1. Suicide in the Middle Ages: Nuances
Chapter 2. The Legacy of the Middle Ages: Between Madness and Despair
Chapter 3. The Classical Heritage: Perfecting the Timely Exit
Part II. The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Stifled
Chapter 4. The Early Renaissance: Rediscovery of the Enigma of Suicide
Chapter 5. To Be or Not To Be: The First Crisis of Conscience in Europe
Chapter 6. The Seventeenth Century: Reaction and Repression
Chapter 7. Substitutes for Suicide in the Seventeenth Century
Part III. The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt-Free
Chapter 8. The Birth of the English Malady, 1680-1720
Chapter 9. The Debate on Suicide in the Enlightenment: From Morality to Medicine
Chapter 10. The Elite: From Philosophical Suicide to Romantic Suicide
Chapter 11. The Common People: The Persistence of Ordinary Suicide
Epilogue. From the French Revolution to the Twentieth Century, or, From Free Debate to Silence