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Suicide: The Hidden Side of Modernity

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4056-3
Hardcover
224 pages
August 2008, Polity
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  • This book provides a systematic overview of suicide and suicide trends in contemporary societies.

  • It is the most comparative and up-to-date account of suicide currently available.

  • Suicide has been a core issue in sociology ever since Durkheim wrote his famous book on suicide.

  • This book picks up the theoretical problems raised by Durkheim and reworks them for the 21st century.

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