| Description |
345 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Ritual, dramatic performance, and suicide : an anthropological perspective / Joseph Rubenstein -- The suicide note -- The presentation of the self in suicide notes / David Lester & Bijou Yang -- Dramatic suicide notes / David Lester -- The body as a suicide note / David Lester -- Suicide and the communicative condition : audience and the idea of suicide / Jerome Martinez -- The location of the suicidal act -- The location of the suicidal act / Steven Stack -- Suicide away from home / Steven Stack -- Hotel suicide and the drug subculture / Steven Stack -- Back to nature: suicide in natural areas / Steven Stack -- Suicide in the grand canyon national park / Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman -- Suicide in public / David Lester -- Suicide on television and online / David Lester -- The method chosen for suicide -- The method chosen for suicide / David Lester -- The rehearsal : non-fatal suicidal behavior as a precipitant of suicide / John F. Gunn III -- Suicide by fire : ethnicity as a predictor of self-immolation in the united states / Steven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn -- Have gun, will travel / teven Stack -- Unusual suicides / Steven Stack -- Methods of suicide around the world / Steven Stack -- Cultural scripts for suicide -- Russian roulette and duels / David Lester -- Death by seppuku / David Lester -- Self-immolation as a protest / David Lester -- Victim-precipitated homicide / David Lester -- Sati / David Lester -- Suicide as the liberation of the soul / David Lester -- Conclusions -- Conclusion / David Lester and Steven Stack. |
| Subject |
Suicide -- Case studies.
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Suicide. (OCoLC)fst01137578
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| Added Author |
Lester, David, 1942- editor.
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Stack, Steven, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781412856942 (hardcover) |
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1412856949 (hardcover) |
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9781412856614 (electronic book) |
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1412856612 (electronic book) |
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