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Hi,
You might want to check the archives for some of Paul's contributions where
he mentions his website, who's address completely escapes me at the moment,
where there's an archive of his (and others) work in this kind of thing.
Vincent
> ----------
> From: Lawrence DeBivort
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2002 19:36 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: Wildebeest !!
>
> 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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