Suicide
Subtitle: the hidden side of modernity
By: by Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet ; translated by David Macey.
Contributors: Establet, Roger.
Publisher: Polity Press; Polity
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780745640563; 9780745640570
Subjects: Suicide; Suicide
Work titles: Suicide.
Description: In this major study, Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide. Drawing on the work of Durkheim and his successor Maurice Halbwachs, the authors argue that classical sociological theories of suicide require some modification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203) and index.

"First published in French as Suicide, [copyright] Éditions du Seuil, 2006"--T.p. verso.