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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773576827
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sadly Troubled HistoryLOC classification:
  • HV6545 W363 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: A comparative history of suicide, consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.
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Intro -- 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.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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