- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue, and the media reported on sensational cases of murder and suicide. More troublesome still, a compelling death wish appeared to grip women and youth. Drawing on a range of sources from judicial records to the popular press, Death in the City investigates the cultural meanings of self-destruction in modern Mexico. The author examines responses to suicide and death and disproves the long-held belief that Mexicans possess a cavalier attitude toward suffering.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Death in the City
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 • A Social History of Suicide in Mexico City, 1900–1930
- 2 • From Corpse to Cadaver: Suicide and the Forensic Gaze
- 3 • Media, Moral Panic, and Youth Suicide
- 4 • The Modern Disease: Medical Meanings and Approaches to Suicide
- 5 • Death in the City: Suicide and Public Space
- 6 • Stains of Blood: Death, Vernacular Mourning, and Suicide
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index