Emile Durkheim: Le suicide One Hundred Years Later

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Editor Contributors Contents Preface • David Lester 1 Suicide and Social Theory • Steven Taylor 2 Was Durkheim Right? A Critical Survey of the Empirical Literature on Le Suicide • K.D. Break 3 Durkheim’s Heavy Hand in the Sociological Study of Suicide • Jack P. Qibbs 4 Who Committed Suicide? • Michael A. Overington 5 There are More Things in Heaven and Earth: Missing Features in Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide • David P. Phillips, Todd E. Ruth and Sean MacNamara 6 The Whole, Its Parts and the Level of Analysis: Durkheim and the Macrosociological Study of Suicide • Ferenc Moksony 7 “Suicide and the Birth Rate, A Study in Moral Statistics”: A Translation and Commentary • Barclay D. Johnson 8 Durkheim and the Immunity of Women to Suicide • Howard I. Knsbner 9 Applying Durkheim’s Typology to Individual Suicides • David Lester 10 Reformulating Durkheim: 100 Years Later • Steven Stack 11 Self-Harm During the Nineteenth Century: A Contemporary Application • G.E. Berrios 12 Bringing Durkheim into the Twenty-First Century: A Network Approach to Unresolved Issues in the Sociology of Suicide • Bernice A. Pescosodido 13 Durkheim’s Suicide Theory and Its Applicability to Contemporary American Indians and Alaska Natives • Phillip A. May 14 A Random-Walk Hypothesis for Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide • Bijou Yang