Race and Suicide in South Africa

by Fatima Meer

Book Overview

Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon. Its approach is Durkheimian in the use of court records, and phenomenological in the examination of actual cases. About 1500 cases of suicide in Durban from 1940-70 are analysed in terms of race, sex, occupation, marital status, economic status, family type and size, residential area, time and method...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032326751
• ISBN13: 9781032326757
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages