Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic by Epstein, Helen C.

Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic

What causes suicide epidemics--and how can we prevent them? Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness,...
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Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic by Epstein, Helen C.

Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic

$18.00

Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic

$18.00
Author: Helen C. Epstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
What causes suicide epidemics--and how can we prevent them?


Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness, but sometimes the suicide rate of a particular group jumps--two-, three-, or even ten-fold--in a short time, behaving like an epidemic. Suicide epidemics unfold more slowly than microbial plagues like flu or malaria, but they happen far too quickly to result from genetic changes and affect far too many people to be explained away as spontaneous cases of brain injury.


These epidemics have occurred in America's rustbelt towns, Russia's cities, and indigenous communities from the Arctic to the Pacific Islands. They tend not to be associated with wars, poverty, or environmental disasters but with a rupture in the social environment so profound that people come to question their most intimate attachments. The mental pain that drives suicide has been likened to the flipside of love, but if so, how does love suddenly disappear--or seem to--from the lives of thousands of people at once? In Why Live, public health researcher Helen C. Epstein sets out to find the answer.


Author: Helen C. Epstein
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9798987053744

About the Author
Epstein, Helen C.: - Helen C. Epstein is Visiting Professor of Global Public Health and Human Rights at Bard College. She is the author of two previous books, including Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror (Columbia Global Reports). Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and she has worked as a consultant for such organizations as the World Bank, UNICEF, and Human Rights Watch. She lives in New York City.

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