Suicide (French: Le Suicide) was one of the groundbreaking books in the field of sociology. Written by French sociologistÉmile Durkheim and published in 1897 it was a case study
(some argue that it is not a case study, and that this is what makes it
unique among other scholarly work on the same subject) of suicide, a publication unique for its time which provided an example of what the sociological monograph should look like.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of
Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes,
Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with
their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically,
Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621.