To have a power over life and death : Medicalisation of death; case study in the Liberec region at the turn of the 18th and in the first half of the 19th century
2019
Abstract
This paper aims to map the change of reception of suicide and ways in which body of self-murderer was treated in the end of 18. and in the begining of 19. century. Main focus is put on the change of attitude towards self-murderers's body with respect to new medical discourse.
The work also aims to describe the transformation of state's attitude to voluntary death, modification of criminal law and introduction of new legislative, which changed perception of self-murderers's body and led to gradual decriminalization of suicide.