Henry Morselli

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Enrico Morselli was an Italian physician and professor at the University of Turin, best known for the publication of his influential book, Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics (1881),^[1] claiming that suicide was primarily the result of the struggle for life and nature's evolutionary process.^[2]

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Suicide: an essay on comparative moral statistics (1881)

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Henry Morselli

↑ Stark, Rodney and William Sims Bainbridge. 1996. Religion, Deviance and Social Control. Routledge, Google Print p. 32
↑ Farberow, Norman L. "History of Suicide" in "Suicide Basics" article, Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (Retrieved June 29, 2009)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 59160854 LCCN: n97059652 GND: 116930209

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