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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan Morris Klappentext Globally, suicides account for a significant number of premature deaths every year. Traditional approaches to suicide research and prevention are not working for everyone, but why is this? And what can be done about it?In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has become too focused on the biomedical paradigm: a model that pathologizes distress and obscures the social, political, and historical contexts that contribute to human suffering. The authors introduce the perspectives of those who have direct personal knowledge of suicide and suicidal behaviour and propose alternative approaches to suicide prevention that are creative, socially just, and culturally responsive. In the right hands, this book could save lives. Zusammenfassung Critical Suicidology introduces alternative approaches to suicide prevention, approaches that don't pathologize inequality and distress but rather take into consideration the social, political, and cultural contexts of people's lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Rethinking Suicide / Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan MorrisPart 1: Critiquing Suicidology: Constructions of Suicide and Practices of Prevention1 Critiquing Contemporary Suicidology / Ian Marsh2 A Critical Look at the Current Suicide Research / Heidi Hjelmeland3 Exploring Possibilities for Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Responding to Cultural Understandings and Practices / Lisa M. Wexler and Joseph P. Gone4 Risky Bodies: Making Suicide Knowable among Youth / Jonathan Morris5 Speaking of Suicide as a Gendered Problematic: Suicide Attempts and Recovery within Women's Narratives of Depression / Simone Fullagar and Wendy O'BrienPart 2: Insider Perspectives6 "Being More Than Just Your Final Act": Elevating the Multiple Storylines of Suicide with Narrative Practices / Marnie Sather and David Newman7 When Despair and Hope Meet the Stigma of "Manipulation" and "Ambivalence" / Yvonne Bergmans, Andrea Rowe, Michael Dineen, and Denise Johnson8 No Regrets / Andrea RowePart 3: Creating Alternatives: Re-envisioning Suicide and Prevention9 Hate Kills: A Social Justice Response to "Suicide" / Vikki Reynolds10 Queer Youth Suicide: Discourses of Difference, Framing Suicidality, and the Regimentation of Identity / Rob Cover11 Understanding the Unfathomable in Suicide: Poetry, Absence, and the Corporeal Body / Katrina Jaworski and Daniel Scott12 Indigenous Best Practices: Community-Based Suicide Prevention in Nunavut, Canada / Michael J. Kral and Lori Idlout13 Reimagining Youth Suicide Prevention / Jennifer WhiteIndex...
