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Author:   David Lester, PhD. ,  Stack Lester
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781412856942

ISBN 10:   1412856949
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   30 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction David Lester & Steven Stack 2 Ritual, Dramatic Performance, and Suicide: An Anthropological Perspective Joseph Rubenstein Part 1. The Suicide Note 3 The Presentation of the Self in Suicide Notes 1 David Lester & Bijou Yang 4 Dramatic Suicide Notes David Lester 5 The Body as a Suicide Note David Lester 6 Suicide and the Communicative Condition: Audience and the Idea of Suicide Jermaine Martinez Part 2. The Location of the Suicidal Act 7 The Location of the Suicidal Act Steven Stack 8 Suicide Away from Home Steven Stack 9 Hotel Suicide and the Drug Subculture Steven Stack 10 Back to Nature: Suicide in Natural Areas Steven Stack 11 Suicide in the Grand Canyon National Park Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman 12 Suicide in Public David Lester 13 Suicide on Television and Online David Lester Part 3. The Methods Chosen for Suicide 14 The Methods Chosen for Suicide David Lester 15 The Rehearsal: Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior as a Precipitant of Suicide John F. Gunn III 16 Suicide by Fire: Ethnicity as a Predictor of Self-Immolation in the United States Steven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn 17 Have Gun, Will Travel Steven Stack 18 Unusual Suicides Steven Stack 19 Methods of Suicide Around the World Steven Stack Part 4. Cultural Scripts for Suicide 20 Russian Roulette and Duels David Lester 21 Death by Seppuku David Lester 22 Self-Immolation as a Protest David Lester 23 Victim-Precipitated Homicide David Lester 24 Sati David Lester 25 Suicide as the Liberation of the Soul David Lester 26 Conclusion David Lester & Steven Stack About the Authors Senior Author Index Subject Index

Reviews

This is a remarkable book demonstrating that suicide is a performance with an audience. Suicide is social, is a communication, is rehearsed, and is acted on a particular stage. Suicide is not an isolated event as many think it is. This book is a must read for suicidologists, as well as anyone who thinks suicide is a lonely act. The contributors show that suicide is a social act, a performance for an audience, a rehearsed communication that is set on a selected stage. Readers will gain new insight into suicide through this book. Rather than seeing suicide as an isolated act, the contributors demonstrate that suicide is social, rehearsed, and a communication set on a selected stage. --Michael J. Kral, Wayne State University

They [the editors] are convincing in pointing out that some suicides may be intended as theater. And that insight might provide some help to people on the ground trying to prevent suicide. --Peter J. Leithart, First Things This is a remarkable book demonstrating that suicide is a performance with an audience. Suicide is social, is a communication, is rehearsed, and is acted on a particular stage. Suicide is not an isolated event as many think it is. This book is a must read for suicidologists, as well as anyone who thinks suicide is a lonely act. Readers will gain new insight into suicide through this book. --Michael J. Kral, Wayne State University

-They [the editors] are convincing in pointing out that some suicides may be intended as theater. And that insight might provide some help to people on the ground trying to prevent suicide.- --Peter J. Leithart, First Things -This is a remarkable book demonstrating that suicide is a performance with an audience. Suicide is social, is a communication, is rehearsed, and is acted on a particular stage. Suicide is not an isolated event as many think it is. This book is a must read for suicidologists, as well as anyone who thinks suicide is a lonely act. Readers will gain new insight into suicide through this book.- --Michael J. Kral, Wayne State University They [the editors] are convincing in pointing out that some suicides may be intended as theater. And that insight might provide some help to people on the ground trying to prevent suicide. --Peter J. Leithart, First Things This is a remarkable book demonstrating that suicide is a performance with an audience. Suicide is social, is a communication, is rehearsed, and is acted on a particular stage. Suicide is not an isolated event as many think it is. This book is a must read for suicidologists, as well as anyone who thinks suicide is a lonely act. Readers will gain new insight into suicide through this book. --Michael J. Kral, Wayne State University They [the editors] are convincing in pointing out that some suicides may be intended as theater. And that insight might provide some help to people on the ground trying to prevent suicide. --Peter J. Leithart, First Things This is a remarkable book demonstrating that suicide is a performance with an audience. Suicide is social, is a communication, is rehearsed, and is acted on a particular stage. Suicide is not an isolated event as many think it is. This book is a must read for suicidologists, as well as anyone who thinks suicide is a lonely act. Readers will gain new insight into suicide through this book. --Michael J. Kral, Wayne State University This is a remarkable book demonstrating that suicide is a performance with an audience. Suicide is social, is a communication, is rehearsed, and is acted on a particular stage. Suicide is not an isolated event as many think it is. This book is a must read for suicidologists, as well as anyone who thinks suicide is a lonely act. Readers will gain new insight into suicide through this book. --Michael J. Kral, Wayne State University

Author Information

David Lester is a distinguished professor of psychology at Stockton University, USA. He is the author or editor of nearly one hundred books. Steven Stack is a professor in the Departments of Criminology and Psychiatry at Wayne State University, USA. He is the author of more than three hundred articles or chapters and three books.

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