{"product_id":"american-suicide-a-psycocultural-exploration-paperback","title":"American Suicide: A Psycocultural Exploration - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe predecessors of Durkheim, Freud, and Kraepelin, distrusting explanations based on specific causation, had assumed that suicide like other diseases was a consequence of the interaction of emotional, constitutional, and habitual imbalances. The way a person lived, ate, and felt was viewed as inseparable from the course and outcome of any disorder. For the nineteenth-century physician, the moral issues that suicide raised could not be isolated from its constitutional components. Thus, those who exhibited suicidal tendencies were subjected to an amalgamation of pharmacological, social, and psychological interventions, which practioners labeled the \"moral treatment.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By the 1890s, however, the consensus about the causes of suicide became unglued as a bacteriological medicine and the rise of the social sciences jointly served to call into question eclectic diagnoses. The renewed doctrine of specific causation of disease quickly spilled over into a constellation of explanataions for social behavior. The rise of specialization, which followed the bacteriological revolution of the 1880s, made the moral treatment appear scientifically suspect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The goal of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e is to demonstrate how the apparent contradictions among sociological, psychoanalytic, and neurobiological explanations of the etiology of suicide may be resolved. Only througha reintegration of culture, psychology, and biology can we begin to construct a satisfactory answer to the questions first raised by Durkheim, Freud, and Kraepelin.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward I. Kushner is Professor of History and the Director of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Liberal Arts at San Diego State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConflict on the Northwestern Coast\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Anne H. Sherrill) \u003ci\u003eJohn Milton Hay: The Union of Poetry and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.25 x 5.77 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751347945760,"sku":"9780813516103","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9b0e115075e87e6cddb1a3949739e731.webp?v=1779971412","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/american-suicide-a-psycocultural-exploration-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}