American historian, teacher and poet (born 1965)

Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it / Jennifer Michael Hecht.

The end of the soul : scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France / Jennifer Michael Hecht.

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Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it / Jennifer Michael Hecht.

The end of the soul : scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France / Jennifer Michael Hecht.