Histories of suicide international perspectives on self-destruction in the modern world (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / David Wright and John Weaver -- 1. Suicide, Gender, and the Fear of Modernity / Howard I. Kushner -- 2. Suicide as an Illness Strategy in the Long Eighteenth Century / Kevin Siena -- 3. Death and Life in the Archives: Patterns of and Attitudes to Suicide in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Jeffrey Merrick -- 4. Medicalization of Suicide: Medicine and the Law in Scotland and England, circa 1750-1850 / Rab Houston -- 5. Death by Suicide in the British Army, 1830-1900 / Janet Padiak -- 6. Suicide and French Soldiers of the First World War: Differing Perspectives, 1914-1939 / Patricia E. Prestwich -- 7. 'This Painful Subject': Racial Politics and Suicide in Colonial Natal and Zululand / Julie Parle -- 8. Medico-legal and Popular Interpretations of Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Lima / Paulo Drinot -- 9. Violence against the Collective Self: Suicide and the Problem of Social Integration in Early Bolshevik Russia / Kenneth M. Pinnow -- 10. Race and the Intellectualizing of Suicide in the American Human Sciences, circa 1950-1975 / Andrew M. Fearnley -- 11. Questioning the Suicide of Resolve: Medico-legal Disputes Regarding 'Overwork Suicide' in Twentieth-Century Japan / Junko Kitanaka -- 12. Twentieth-Century Trends in Homicide Followed by Suicide in Four North American Cities / Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy -- 13. 'I may as well die as go to the gallows': Murder-Suicide in Queensland,1890-1940 / Jonathan Richards and John Weaver