Le suicide est-il une folie ? Les lectures médicales du suicide en France au XIXe siècle
Decriminalized in 1791, suicide in 19th-century France is an issue of scientific knowledge, submitted to observation and to analysis that seek to determine the motives for this act, with the aim of reducing its occurrence. Alienists in particular attempt to understand the causes of suicide, by propo...
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| Language: | English |
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Criminocorpus
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Criminocorpus |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/3797 |
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| Summary: | Decriminalized in 1791, suicide in 19th-century France is an issue of scientific knowledge, submitted to observation and to analysis that seek to determine the motives for this act, with the aim of reducing its occurrence. Alienists in particular attempt to understand the causes of suicide, by proposing several theories, thus opening a debate within this scientific community between the defenders of a pathological interpretation and those who hold a more eclectic approach to the causes. Toward the end of the century, sociology in its nascent stages makes suicide its own object of investigation, with the aim to explain the causes by taking a markedly different stance from the medical approach. This article proposes to shed light on the main positions held by the French medical community, between Pinel’s theory of mental illness and Durkheim’s book on this subject, published in 1897. |
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| ISSN: | 2108-6907 |