Relating Suicide

A Personal and Critical Perspective

Anne Whitehead

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
09 February 2023

Literary theory; Philosophy of mind; Cultural studies; Humanistic psychology; Medical sociology

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide’s materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology and the medical institution to think about subjective and social perspectives, and to open up the various sites, scenes and interactions with which suicide is associated.

Suicide is related forward from the point of death, rather than taking a retrospective view. Combining critical and textual analysis with personal reflection based on her own experience of her sister’s suicide, Whitehead examines the days, months, and years following a death by suicide. This pivoting of attention to what happens in the wake of suicide brings to light the often-surprising ways in which suicide is woven into the everyday places that we inhabit, and in which it is related to all of us, albeit with varying degrees of proximity and kinship.

By: Anne Whitehead
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781350192157
ISBN 10: 1350192155
Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 09 February 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Why? Chapter 1: When? Chapter 2: How? Chapter 3: Where? Coda: Who? Bibliography

Anne Whitehead is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (2004), Memory: New Critical Idiom (2008) and Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction (2017) and she was co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (2016)

Reviews for Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective

Weaving personal experience together with extensive research, Relating Suicide bears witness to what it means to live beside suicide. It calls for the need to not only talk more about suicide, but also to listen more to a diversity of voices, and to accommodate for what resides between what we can and cannot know about suicide. This is an absolute must read for students and researchers focusing on the topic of suicide and for those who work in suicide prevention and want to understand suicide in more expansive terms. -- Katrina Jaworski, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia This is a wonderful book. Entirely original, beautifully written, hugely wide ranging. At last a serious and profound engagement with what comes after suicide: the extraordinary disturbances of time and perception for those remaining; the mundane and often forgotten judicial, religious and cultural processes that have sought to contain and cucumscibe an event; the historical and ongoing resonances and effects of stigmatisation. Lyrical, analytic, philosophical and factual, this is also achieves that very difficult feat of being personal without being confessional and of being philosophical and political without relegating the profoundly experiential. * Pat Waugh, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, UK *