More people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and
terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and survivors are left
perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psychologists, and social
workers try to deal with it through their professional routines;
sociologists and psychiatrists attempt to provide theoretical
explanations of it. In a study of nearly 7000 suicides from 1900 to
1950 in New Zealand and Queensland, Australia, John Weaver
documents the challenges that ordinary people experienced during
turbulent times and, using witnesses' testimony, death bed
statements, and suicide notes, reconstructs individuals' thoughts
as they decide whether to endure their suffering. Bridging social
and medical history, Weaver presents an intellectual and political
history of suicide studies, a revealing construction and
deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion of gender, life
stages, and socio-economic circumstances in relation to suicide
patterns, reflections on reasoning processes and intent, and
society's reactions to suicide, including medical intervention. A
Sadly Troubled History marshals thousands of suicide inquests,
replete with observations on the anxieties of unemployment, the
heartbreak of romantic disappointment, the pain of domestic
turmoil, and the torments of mental illness, to demonstrate that
history - although, like biochemistry, sociology, psychology, and
psychiatry, reliant on remarkable yet imperfect information - can
contribute to a better understanding of the suicidal act and its
motives.
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