Peter Mayer

Suicide and Society in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In India about 123,000 people take their own lives each year, the second highest total in the world. There is a suicide death in India almost every 4 minutes, and it is the leading cause of death for rural Indians especially women in early adulthood. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of suicide in India based on original research as well as existing studies, and looks at the issue in an international, sociological and historical context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415589383
• ISBN-10: 041558938X
• Artikelnr.: 34556411

Autorenporträt

Peter Mayer is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include suicide in India; the privatisation of state-owned enterprises; the masculinisation of the Indian population; civic engagement and social capital in human development and state weakness in South Asia. He is series editor for the Routledge/ASAA South Asian Series.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Previous Studies of Suicide in India 3.The Reliability
of Indian Suicide Data 4. The Aetiology of Suicide in India 5. The Methods
of Suicide 6. Trends in Suicide in India 7. Gender and Suicide 8. Age and
Suicide 9. Urbanisation and Suicide in India 10. Education and Suicide 11.
Occupation and Suicide 12. Marriage, the Family and Suicide 13. Alcohol and
Suicide 14. Suicide in the Indian Diaspora 15. Suicide in Pondicherry 16.
Conclusion