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Relating Suicide - A Personal and Critical Perspective (Hardcover)
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Relating Suicide - A Personal and Critical Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
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Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms
of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of
when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as
well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply
affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the
critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology
and the medical institution to think about subjective and social
perspectives, and to open up the various sites, scenes and
interactions with which suicide is associated. Suicide is related
forward from the point of death, rather than taking a retrospective
view. Combining critical and textual analysis with personal
reflection based on her own experience of her sister's suicide,
Whitehead examines the days, months, and years following a death by
suicide. This pivoting of attention to what happens in the wake of
suicide brings to light the often-surprising ways in which suicide
is woven into the everyday places that we inhabit, and in which it
is related to all of us, albeit with varying degrees of proximity
and kinship.
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