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A sadly troubled history : the meanings of suicide in the modern age /
More people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and survivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psychologists, and social workers try to deal with it through their professional routines; sociologists and psychiatrists attempt to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2009
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Suicide as a gauge for the times : the nineteenth century
- Epistemic communities and the suicide problem : the twentieth century
- Bearings on a temporal compass : rates, seasons, cohorts, and motives
- Work and troubles : men and motives
- Sorrows and burdens : women and motives
- What becomes of the broken-hearted? : intentions, decisions, and acts
- Managing mental crises : psychiatry and suicidal patients.