Suicide is a serious public health problem throughout the world. An interdisciplinary
approach is needed to better understand and prevent suicide and life-threatening behaviors …

Abstract The Intermountain West has an overall suicide rate markedly higher than the
national average. An ethnographic study was initiated in one county in the Intermountain …

Many anthropologists are probably familiar with Émile Durkheim's (1951) famous study of
suicide as a societal phenomenon. However, fewer anthropologists may be familiar with the …

Suicide is recognized as a multifactorial phenomenon that can be approached from a range
of different perspectives. In his monumental book Definition of Suicide, Shneidman (1985) …

Objective Knowledge gaps remain regarding whether syndemic conditions identify treatment-
seeking individuals most at risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB). We employed …

This study sought to explore whether using the structure of the International Classification of
Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) for the thematic coding of coroners' reports would …

Background While several studies have demonstrated that gay and bisexual men are at
increased risk of suicide less attention has been given to the processes that generate the …

Indigenous communities have disproportionate rates of suicide compared with non-Native
communities in North America, and prevention and intervention efforts based on scientific …

―(“Sacred Emily," by Gertrude Stein, 1913) s the two quotations above suggest, throughout
many centuries we have been able to communicate similar concepts through the use of …

" Suicide and Predicament: Life is a Predicament" takes a broad view of suicide. It argues
that a large proportion of people who suicide do not have a mental disorder, and therefore it …