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Suicide and Culture

Understanding the Context

9780889374362
270 pages
Hogrefe Publishing Corporation
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Why understanding the role of culture can help prevent suicide\n\nThe increasing domination of biological approaches in suicide research and prevention at the expense of social and cultural understanding is severely harming our ability to stop people dying—so run the clearly set out arguments and evidence in this lucid book by leading social scientists and suicide researchers.\n\nIn the first part of this book instead of simply comparing suicide in different countries the authors review and examine the fundamental issues of why culture is of vital importance in understanding and preventing suicidal behavior what the “cultural meaning” of suicide is and where current research and theory are leading us.\n\nThe second part of the book then presents (and importantly also critiques) exemplary recent research including an quantitative and qualitative study on the meaning of suicide in Australia India and Italy which is reported in detail as well as other studies on correlates of suicidal behavior in Kuwait and the US on a culturally specific form of suicide (sati) and on the role of cultural conflict in South Korea.\n\nIn the concluding section the editors highlight both the necessity and the challenges of conducting good culturally sensitive studies as well as suggesting solutions to these challenges. This volume is thus essential reading for anyone involved in suicide research and prevention.

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