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Greetings, Vincent,
Can you (or anyone else) give me some references to Marsden's work on
suicide contagion? It may be very helpful.
Thanks,
Lawrence
> > Seeing individuals as the sole focus of behaviour ignores the fact
> >that decisions about the acceptability of behaviour is based on
> >society-wide
> >decision making processes. If you have a society in which gun
> ownership is
> >seen as a fundamental right then gun related deaths will follow. Social
> >context is vital for individual decision making processes. Hence, for
> >example, the suicide contagion proponents like Paul Marsden make the case
> >for a relationship between high profile acts of suicide providing a
> >legitimate context for potential sucide committers to also do it.
> >
> > Vincent
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