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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
SUICIDE AND CULTURE
RESEARCH
Tom Widger
[email protected] / www.suicideandculture.wordpress.com
Version 13.04.2015
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Contents
Anthropology ............................................................................................................................. 2
Cross-cultural Psychiatry ........................................................................................................... 8
Cross-cultural Suicidology ........................................................................................................ 9
Ethnopsychiatry ......................................................................................................................... 9
Grey literature ............................................................................................................................ 9
Public Health, Global health, Epidemiology ........................................................................... 10
Religious Studies ..................................................................................................................... 12
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Anthropology
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Chua, J.L., 2012, ‘Tales of Decline: Reading Social Pathology into Individual Suicide in South
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Marecek, J., 1998, ‘Culture, Gender, and Suicidal Behavior in Sri Lanka,’ Suicide and Life-
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Marecek, J., & Senadheera, C., 2012, ‘“I drank it to put an end to me”: Narrating girls’
suicide and self-harm in Sri Lanka,’ Contributions to Indian Sociology, 46(1/2), 53-82.
Münster, D. (2012). Farmers’ suicides and the state in India: Conceptual and ethnographic
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Suicide-Prone District (South India). Modern Asian Studies, 1-26.
Niehaus, I. (2012). Gendered endings: Narratives of male and female suicides in the South
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Cross-cultural Psychiatry
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Cross-cultural Suicidology
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Ethnopsychiatry
De Silva, P., 1989, ‘The Logic of Attempted Suicide and its Linkage with Human Emotions,’
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Grey literature
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Public Health, Global health, Epidemiology
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