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Histories of Suicide : International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World /

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to...

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Otros Autores: Wright, David, 1965- (Editor ), Weaver, John C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction / David Wright and John Weaver -- 1. Suicide, gender, and the fear of modernity / Howard I. Kushner -- 2. Suicide as an illness strategy in the long eighteenth century / Kevin Siena -- 3. Death and life in the archives : patterns of and attitudes to suicide in eighteenth-century Paris / Jeffrey Merrick -- 4. Medicalization of suicide : medicine and the law in Scotland and England, circa 1750-1850 / Rab Houston -- 5. Death by suicide in the British Army, 1830-1900 / Janet Padiak -- 6. Suicide and French soldiers of the First World War : differing perspectives, 1914-1939 / Patricia E. Prestwich -- 7. "This painful subject" : racial politics and suicide in colonial Natal and Zululand / Julie Parle -- 8. Medico-legal and popular interpretations of suicide in early twentieth-century Lima / Paulo Drinot -- 9. Violence against the collective self : suicide and the problem of social integration in early Bolshevik Russia / Kenneth M. Pinnow -- 10. Race and the intellectualizing of suicide in the American human sciences, circa 1950-1975 / Andrew M. Fearnley -- 11. Questioning the suicide of resolve : medico-legal disputes regarding "overwork suicide" in twentieth-century Japan / Junko Kitanaka -- 12. Twentieth-century trends in homicide followed by suicide in four North American cities / Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy -- 13. "I may as well die as go to the gallows" : murder-suicide in Queensland, 1890-1940 / Jonathan Richards and John Weaver. 
520 |a Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to growing concern amongst health care practitioners and policy experts, relatively little is known about the history of attempted and completed suicide. Histories of Suicide is the first book to examine the history of suicide in diverse national contexts, including Japan, Scotland, Australia, Soviet Russia, Peru, United States, France, South Africa, and Canada, to reveal the different social, political, economic, and cultural factors that inform our understanding of suicide. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods. Focusing on developments from the eighteenth century to the present, the contributors examine vitally important topics such as the medicalization of suicide, representations of mental illness, psychiatric disputes, and the frequency of suicide amongst soldiers. An illuminating volume of studies, Histories of Suicide is a fascinating examination of the phenomenon of self-destruction throughout different historical periods and nations. 
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