American Suicide: A Psycocultural Exploration

by Howard I. Kushner

Book Overview

The predecessors of Durkheim, Freud, and Kraepelin, distrusting explanations based on specific causation, had assumed that suicide like other diseases was a consequence of the interaction of emotional, constitutional, and habitual imbalances. The way a person lived, ate, and felt was viewed as inseparable from the course and outcome of any disorder. For the nineteenth-century physician, the moral issues that suicide raised could not be isolated from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516102
• ISBN13: 9780813516103
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.3"