The idea of suicide contagion, imitation, and cultural diffusion
"This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Written as part of a new, critical focus in suicidology, this volume moves away from the dominant, strictly scientific understanding of suicide as the result of a mental disorder, a...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York ; London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2019
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Schriftenreihe: | Researching social psychology
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Zusammenfassung: | "This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Written as part of a new, critical focus in suicidology, this volume moves away from the dominant, strictly scientific understanding of suicide as the result of a mental disorder, and towards positioning suicide as an anthropologically salient, community-driven phenomenon. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this volume presents a conception of suicide as culturally scripted, and it demonstrates how suicide becomes a cultural idiom of distress that for some can become a normative option"-- |
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Beschreibung: | ix, 134 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9780367026592 978-0-367-02659-2 |