SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Altruistic Suicide, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Rede Ferroviária Nacional
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An example of location of suicides and attempts. Subway suicides cannot be prevented; bloor viaduct used to be an open space bridge now barricaded. Slide 3: dante"s inferno the woods of the suicides and the harpies. During the 1300"s suicides in the 7th circle of hell; harpies break off branches and the suffering commences. Slide 4: albert camus: the myth of sisyphus. Wrote about the myth of sisyphus; and according to camus, there is one truly serious philosophic problem and that is suicide . Nietzsche: the thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it, one gets through many a bad night . Slide 6: philosophy (& psychology) approach suicide as an individual issue. Psychology looks at suicide to be the result of depression, failure, etc. Slide 7: sociology looks at it from a social point of view. The sociological imagination: broader social forces affecting one"s life chances. Ex: cancer villages = a broader social force.
