Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective

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Suicide explored through critical, material, personal lenses.

"Relating Suicide" isn't just a study; it's an empathetic journey through the aftermath of loss. If you've ever grappled with the heavy complexities of suicide, Anne Whitehead's blend of academic rigor and personal narrative offers a refreshing perspective. It doesn't dwell on the 'why,' but instead positions the 'how,' 'when,' and 'where,' offering solace and understanding in the tangible realities that surround this difficult topic.

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Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective

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ISBN: 9781350192157
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 2023-02-09
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Sociology, Personal Development
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Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology and the medical institution to think about subjective and social perspectives, and to open up the various sites, scenes and interactions with which suicide is associated. Suicide is related forward from the point of death, rather than taking a retrospective view. Combining critical and textual analysis with personal reflection based on her own experience of her sister's suicide, Whitehead examines the days, months, and years following a death by suicide. This pivoting of attention to what happens in the wake of suicide brings to light the often-surprising ways in which suicide is woven into the everyday places that we inhabit, and in which it is related to all of us, albeit with varying degrees of proximity and kinship.
 

Suicide explored through critical, material, personal lenses.

"Relating Suicide" isn't just a study; it's an empathetic journey through the aftermath of loss. If you've ever grappled with the heavy complexities of suicide, Anne Whitehead's blend of academic rigor and personal narrative offers a refreshing perspective. It doesn't dwell on the 'why,' but instead positions the 'how,' 'when,' and 'where,' offering solace and understanding in the tangible realities that surround this difficult topic.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.