Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
019820101X
ISBN 13
9780198201014
LCCN
HV 6548 .A54
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
xiii, 475 pages
Subject
Suicide
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Abstract
The first serious historical study of a central human problem, this book opens new avenues for understanding the nature of--and responses to--suicidal behavior as it charts unexplored terrain in the general history of death. Using an unusual array of historical techniques and sources, including coroners' private case papers, Olive Anderson examines in turn four key elements in the study of suicide: suicide rates and distribution, individual experiences, social attitudes, and efforts at prevention. Her lucid and humane approach to this sensitive subject affords unique perspectives on the significance of time, place, age, and gender; on law, literature, medicine, and collective mentalities; and on the police, philanthropy, and public policy in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Description
Contents:
Part I, Statistics -- The process behind Victorian and Edwardian Official Suicide Statistics -- gender, Age, Morality, and Suicide -- The Geography of Victorian and Edwardian Suicide -- Part II, Experiences -- Dying by Suicide: London, 1861-1862 -- Another Place, Another Time: the Rape of Hastings, 1859-1866, and London in 1911 -- Part III, Attitudes -- Standard Commonplaces and Personal reactions: Mid-Victorian London -- Other Places, Other Times -- Part VI, restraints -- The Sermons and Sanctions of the Law -- Good Samaritans -- The Environmentalist Approach to Suicide Prevention -- The Role of Medical Men in Preventing Suicide.
Part I, Statistics -- The process behind Victorian and Edwardian Official Suicide Statistics -- gender, Age, Morality, and Suicide -- The Geography of Victorian and Edwardian Suicide -- Part II, Experiences -- Dying by Suicide: London, 1861-1862 -- Another Place, Another Time: the Rape of Hastings, 1859-1866, and London in 1911 -- Part III, Attitudes -- Standard Commonplaces and Personal reactions: Mid-Victorian London -- Other Places, Other Times -- Part VI, restraints -- The Sermons and Sanctions of the Law -- Good Samaritans -- The Environmentalist Approach to Suicide Prevention -- The Role of Medical Men in Preventing Suicide.
Biblio Notes
Includes biographical references (p.[431]-459) and index.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.
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