Sadly Troubled History : The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age.
Title:
Sadly Troubled History : The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age.
Author:
Weaver, John C.
ISBN:
9780773576827
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (464 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society ; v.33
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Contents:
Contents -- Tables and Graphs -- Preface -- Illustrations following pages 100 and 256 -- Introduction -- Part One :Theory, Conjecture, and Politics -- 1 Suicide as a Gauge for the Times: The Nineteenth Century -- 2 Epistemic Communities and the Suicide Problem: The Twentieth Century -- Part Two : Rates, Society, and Motives -- 3 Bearings on a Temporal Compass: Rates, Seasons, Cohorts, and Motives -- 4 Work and Troubles: Men and Motives -- 5 Sorrows and Burdens: Women and Motives -- Part Three : Three Rationality, Psyche, and Treatment -- 6 What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? Intentions, Decisions, and Acts -- 7 Managing Mental Crises: Psychiatry and Suicidal Patients -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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 provide theoretical explanations of it.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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