What does it mean to say that Aboriginal suicide is different? Differing cultures, accounts, and idioms of distress in the context of indigenous youth suicide.

From: Australian Aboriginal Studies | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Reser, Joseph P. | Copyright information

Abstract: Colin Tatz's article provides a provocative and ostensibly "different' perspective on indigenous suicide. There are multiple problems with the arguments and evidence presented, and the article, as a whole, is arguably more of a rhetorical 'argument" and ideological position and challenge than a research report, considered review of the theoretical or research literatures addressing this phenomenon, or substantive analysis of a critical and salient social problem. It shoul...

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