Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age 9780773576827

A comparative history of suicide, consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.

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English Pages 464 Year 2009

Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age
9780773576827

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John C. Weaver

Table of 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
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