1st Edition

Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing

By John Sym, Michael MacDonald Copyright 2014
436 Pages
by Routledge

436 Pages
by Routledge

436 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1637, was the first full-length treatise on suicide published in English. Originally published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, the introduction by Michael MacDonald places the book in the context of attitudes to suicide in its day, as well as showing some of the ways that this theological book is also a study of the... Read more

Preface. Introduction by Michael MacDonald. Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing by John Sym.

Biography

John Sym, Michael MacDonald