Some Critiques of Official Suicide Rates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23756400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Taylor (0009-0007-4684-5956, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Pages | 43-64 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Durkheim and the Study of Suicide (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-16792-0_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2504349842 |
| ISBN | 9781349167920 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The suicide rates have always played a most important part in suicide research. They have been looked upon as the perfect instrument for measuring and comparing the size of the suicide problem in populations ... Two years ago, in a symposium at Washington, a distinguished sociologist dismissed doubts about their reliability and comparability as part of the folklore of psychiatry. 1
Archaeology · Comparability · Criminology · Folklore · Medical emergency · Physics · Poison control · Psychiatry · Reliability (semiconductor) · Suicide prevention · Suicide rates · History · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |