Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition

Marja-Liisa Honkasalo is Professor of Culture and Health at the University of Turku, Finland. She has worked as Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study and as Professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of Linköping, Sweden. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and at La Sapienza, Rome. She has published monographs, edited volumes and numerous articles in international series on illness and death and has been awarded The Steve Polgar Professional Prize for the best article published in 2009 by the Society of Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Culture, Suicide, and the Human ConditionMarja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira TuominenPART I: SUICIDE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological PsychologyCharles J-H Macdonald and Jean NaudinChapter 2. When it is Worth the Trouble to Die: The Cultural Valuation of SuicideMaría CátedraPART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL APPROACHES TO SUICIDEChapter 3. “Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible” – Plato’s Phaedo (60c–63c) on Self-KillingMiira TuominenChapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women – Stoic Perspectives on SuicideMalin GrahnChapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle AgesVirpi MäkinenPART III: MORALITY, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE - SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIESChapter 6. “She Kissed Death with a Smile”: The Politics and Moralities of the Female Suicide BomberSusanne DahlgrenChapter 7. “When We Stop Living, We also Stop Dying” – Men, Suicide, and Moral AgencyMarja-Liisa HonkasaloAfterwordArthur KleinmanNotes on Contributors

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