In Pursuit of the Good Life : Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India /

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"Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to...

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Autor principal: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Suicide > Social aspects.
Social conditions
Economic history.
East Indians > Social conditions.
East Indians > Psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
human behavior.
social sciences.
social issues.
sociology.
suicides.
Changement social.
Comportement humain.
Prestation de soins.
Sciences sociales.
Problemes sociaux.
Sociologie.
Suicide.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Inde > Kerala > Conditions sociales.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Inde > Kerala > Psychologie.
Suicide > Aspect social > Inde > Kerala.
Social Change
Suicide > psychology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Behavior
Delivery of Health Care
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Population Characteristics
Social Sciences
Behavioral Symptoms
Social Problems
Sociology
Socioeconomic Factors
Self-Injurious Behavior
Suicide
Social change.
Human behavior.
Medical care.
Social sciences.
Social problems.
Sociology.
East Indians > India > Kerala > Social conditions.
East Indians > India > Kerala > Psychology.
Suicide > Social aspects > India > Kerala.
India > Kerala.
Kerala (Inde) > Conditions economiques > 21e siecle.
Kerala (Inde) > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
India
Kerala (India) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Kerala (India) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "problem" of striving. Between the devil and the deep sea
  • Gazing at the stars, aiming for the treetops
  • Tales the dead are made to tell
  • On living in a time of suicide. Care-full acts
  • Anywhere but here
  • Fit for the future.

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