ISSN:
0145-9740
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Medical anthropology : cross-cultural studies in health and illness
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 34, No. 6 (2015), p. 501
DDC:
570
Abstract:
Suicide prevention efforts in Asia have increasingly turned to 'quick win' means restriction, while more complicated cognitive restriction and psychosocial programs are limited. This article argues the development of cognitive restriction programs requires greater consideration of suicide methods as social practices, and of how suicide cognitive schemata form. To illustrate this, the article contributes an ethnographically grounded study of how self-poisoning becomes cognitively available in Sri Lanka. I argue the overwhelming preference for poison as a method of self-harm in the country is not simply reflective of its widespread availability, but rather how cognitive schemata of poison-a 'poison complex'-develops from early childhood and is a precondition for suicide schemata. Limiting cognitive availability thus requires an entirely novel approach to suicide prevention that draws back from its immediate object (methods and causes of self-harm) to engage the wider poison complex of which suicide is just one aspect.
Note:
Copyright: Copyright © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 2015
DOI:
10.1080/01459740.2015.1012616
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2015.1012616
URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25651462
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1734300618
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