The Idea of Suicide: Contagion, Imitation, and Cultural Diffusion

ISBN-13: 9780367026592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 134 str.

Michael J. Kral

Opis

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.

O autorze

Michael J. Kral is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University, USA.