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Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective

Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective

Whitehead, Anne

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Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1350192163
ISBN13: 9781350192164
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 9 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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