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

Histories of Suicide : : International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World / / John Weaver, David Wright.

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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VerfasserIn:
Weaver, John,
Wright, David ,
MitwirkendeR:
Drinot, Paulo,
Fearnley, Andrew M.,
Gartner, Rosemary,
Houston, Rab,
Kitanaka, Junko,
Kushner, Howard I.,
McCarthy, Bill,
Merrick, Jeffrey,
Padiak, Janet,
Parle, Julie,
Pinnow, Kenneth M.,
Prestwich, Patricia E.,
Richards, Jonathan,
Siena, Kevin,
Weaver, John,
Wright, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2008
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Suicide, Gender, and the Fear of Modernity
  • 2. Suicide as an Illness Strategy in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • 3. Death and Life in the Archives: Patterns of and Attitudes to Suicide in Eighteenth-Century Paris
  • 4. The Medicalization of Suicide: Medicine and the Law in Scotland and England, circa 1750-1850
  • 5. Death by Suicide in the British Army, 1830-1900
  • 6. Suicide and French Soldiers of the First World War: Differing Perspectives, 1914-1939
  • 7. 'This Painful Subject': Racial Politics and Suicide in Colonial Natal and Zululand
  • 8. Medico-legal and Popular Interpretations of Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Lima
  • 9. Violence against the Collective Self: Suicide and the Problem of Social Integration in Early Bolshevik Russia
  • 10. Race and the Intellectualizing of Suicide in the American Human Sciences, circa 1950-1975
  • 11. Questioning the Suicide of Resolve: Medico-legal Disputes Regarding 'Overwork Suicide' in Twentieth- Century Japan
  • 12. Twentieth-Century Trends in Homicide Followed by Suicide in Four North American Cities
  • 13. 'I may as well die as go to the gallows': Murder-Suicide in Queensland, 1890-1940
  • Contributors
  • Index

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