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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Suicide > Sociological aspects.
Suicide.
MEDICAL > History.
PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.
suicides.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Études transculturelles.
Suicide > Aspect sociologique.
Suicide > Histoire.
Suicide
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Suicide > history
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Cross-cultural studies.
Suicide > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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