close
Navigation
Categories
Canterbury Festival
  Canterbury Festival

 

Secure Payments
 
 
Payment Method
 
 

Suicide : Foucault, History and Truth

Author: Marsh, Ian
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Pub Date: 14/01/2010
ISBN: 9780521130011
Availability: Out Of Stock
Price-Match is available in-store for recommended titles in CCCU module handbooks
Quick overview Uses Michel Foucault's work to analyse the problem of suicide, drawing on both contemporary and historical materials.
£34.99
£31.49
Product description

In an original and provocative study of suicide, Ian Marsh examines the historical and cultural forces that have influenced contemporary thought, practices and policy in relation to this serious public health problem. Drawing on the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault, the book tells the story of how suicide has come to be seen as first and foremost a matter of psychiatric concern. Marsh sets out to challenge the assumptions and certainties embedded in our beliefs, attitudes and practices concerning suicide and the suicidal, and the resulting account unsettles and informs in equal measure. The book will be of particular interest to researchers, professionals and students in psychology, history, sociology and the health sciences.

Additional information