Suicides, poisons and the materially possible: The positive ambivalence of means restriction and critical-critical global health

Developing an object-oriented perspective on suicide, in this article the author challenges critical global health scholarship and sociological theories of ambivalence by showing how a focus on ‘materially possible' suicide prevention can offer culturally relevant solutions to a suicide epidemi...

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Main Author: Widger, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2018]
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 396-412
Further subjects:B critical global health
B Ambivalence
B Suicide Prevention
B poison
B object ontology
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