Book

Discovering Suicide: Studies in the Social Organization of Sudden Death (HV 6545 A843 1978)

Atkinson J M

Year: 1978 Source: Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburg Press, 1978. 225p. SIEC No: 19830407

Reviews the use of official statistics and the problems of accuracy and suggests some alternative sociological approaches to suicide research. Procedures for death investigations are described and possible applications of ethnomethodological research techniques are discussed. (KB)