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0000-0003-2183-4429
Current Organisation
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 26-02-2014
DOI: 10.3390/REL5010165
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-03-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-10-2014
Abstract: Australia has a significantly higher suicide rate than England. Rather than accepting that this ‘statistical fact’ is a direct reflection of some positivist truth, this article begins with the premise that how suicide is counted depends upon what counts as suicide. This study involves semi-structured interviews with coroners both in Australia and England, as well as observations at inquests. Important differences between the two coronial systems include: first, quite different logics of operation second, the burden of proof for reaching a finding of suicide is significantly higher in England and, third, the presence of family members at English inquests results in far greater pressure being brought to bear upon coroners. These combined factors result in a reduced likelihood of English coroners reaching a finding of suicide. The conclusions are twofold. First, this research supports existing criticisms of comparative suicide statistics. Second, this research adds theoretical weight to criticisms of positivist analyses of social phenomena.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 1993
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1993
DOI: 10.1177/144078339302900203
Abstract: This paper looks at the severe fasting practices most commonly found among young women. Almost all explanations for this behaviour centre around the notion of the pathological condition 'anorexia nervosa'. However, food asceticism has a well-documented history, particularly when it concerns religious fasting. In ancient Greece, dietary asceticism constituted an important part of the means by which in iduals constructed an acceptable 'self'. Ascetic fasting then later resurfaced at various historical moments and in various different places — such as amongst medieval religious women and, in a broader way, amongst contemporary young women. It is argued that these practices have traditionally formed part of the mechanisms by which differentiation by age and sex occurs. Overall, it is hoped that this analysis will permit not only a different focus on 'anorexia nervosa', but also on some of the ways in which young people become gendered.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-04-2011
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2010.520506
Abstract: Based on coronial data gathered in the state of Queensland in 2004, this article reviews how a change in legislation may have impacted autopsy decision making by coroners. More specifically, the authors evaluated whether the requirement that coronial autopsy orders specify the level of invasiveness of an autopsy to be performed by a pathologist was affected by the further requirement that coroners take into consideration a known religion, culture, and/or raised family concern before making such an order. Preliminary data reveal that the cultural status of the deceased did not affect coronial autopsy decision making. However, a known religion with a proscription against autopsy and a raised family concern appeared to be taken into account by coroners when making autopsy decisions and tended to decrease the invasiveness of the autopsy ordered from a full internal examination to either a partial internal examination or an external-only examination of the body. The impact of these findings is briefly discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1995
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-1993
DOI: 10.1007/BF00756118
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1999
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1002/ERV.686
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-09-2009
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine firearm suicide in Queensland. In 2006, statistical data were gathered from all closed paper coronial files for the 12-month period of December 2003—December 2004. Of the 567 people who committed suicide in Queensland during this period, 48 (8.5%) used firearms. The following results emerge from this data: first, gun suicides are continuing to decrease in Queensland, most likely as a function of ongoing gun controls, a decrease accompanied by a lesser increase in other methods of suicide, thereby providing little support for substitution theory second, men continue to be more likely to shoot themselves, particularly elderly men third, firearms are more likely to be used in rural settings, and by those with no known history of mental illness or previous suicide attempts. Finally, in spite of otherwise very high suicide rates, Aborigines rarely employ firearms, using instead the culturally significant method of hanging.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-04-2010
DOI: 10.1007/S10912-010-9111-7
Abstract: The central purpose of this paper is to address the tension between legal and medical discourses within the coronial system. Medical expertise, based largely upon internal autopsy, becomes positioned as providing the more important information, rather than the legal model which focuses on evidence gathering at the scene. This paper will examine the aspects of the history, philosophy and consequences of the processes by which the medical model gained its current dominance and will conclude that, while autopsies are necessary, they are also over-used in the coronial system.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-08-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1995
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-08-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-01-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-03-2015
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