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Differences Between National Suicide Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough
B. M. Barraclough*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
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Durkheim directed attention to the suicide rate seen not merely as the sum of individual acts of suicide but as the product of factors which affect the group or society as a whole. The study of suicide rates of different societies thus involves the study of their social structures and leads to inferences about the effects of differences in their cultural, social, psychological and religious composition. Such inferences are based on the assumption that differences in suicide rates are valid and not merely artefacts resulting from differing ascertainment procedures.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 566 , January 1973 , pp. 95 - 96
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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