Suicide: Foucault, history and truth

Abstract

Contents Part I. Introduction and Analytic Strategy: 1. Introduction 2. Analytic strategy Part II. The Present: 3. Mapping a contemporary 'Regime of Truth' in relation to suicide 4. Problematising a contemporary 'Regime of Truth' in relation to suicide Part III. A History of the Present: 5. Self-accomplished deaths at other times and in other places: the contingency of contemporary truths in relation to suicide 6. Conditions of possibility for the formation of medical truths of suicide, 1641-1821 7. Suicide as internal, pathological and medical, Esquirol 1821 8. The production, dissemination and circulation of medical truths in relation to suicide, 1821-1900 9. Managing the problem of the suicidal patient: containment, constant watching and restraint 10. Towards the 'normatively monolithic' - 'psy' discourse and suicide: 1897-1981 11. The discursive formation of the suicidal subject: Sarah Kane and 4.48 Psychosis, 2000 Part IV. Summary and Conclusions: 12. Summary and conclusions References Index.