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Author Weaver, John C

Title A sadly troubled history : the meanings of suicide in the modern age / John C. Weaver
Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 447 pages : illustrations
Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 33
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 33.
Contents Suicide as a gauge for the times : the nineteenth century -- Epistemic communities and the suicide problem : the twentieth century -- Bearings on a temporal compass : rates, seasons, cohorts, and motives -- Work and troubles : men and motives -- Sorrows and burdens : women and motives -- What becomes of the broken-hearted? : intentions, decisions, and acts -- Managing mental crises : psychiatry and suicidal patients
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Suicide -- New Zealand -- History
Suicide -- Australia -- Queensland -- History
Suicide.
Suicide -- history
Suicide -- psychology
Suicide
suicides.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Suicide.
Suicide
SUBJECT Queensland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089
New Zealand https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009520
Queensland https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011793
Subject New Zealand
Queensland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009517316
ISBN 9780773576827
0773576827
1282867261
9781282867260
9786612867262
6612867264