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Book Reviews : Ilkka Mäkinen: On Suicide in European Countries. Some Theoretical, Legal and Historical Views on Suicide Mortality and Its Concomitants. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1997

In this wide-ranging review of suicide (’Suicide mortality in its various aspects, seen from an international, European perspective’ [Foreword]), presented as a doctoral thesis at the University of Stockholm, Makinen gives particular emphasis to theoretical, legal and historical issues. The underlying themes holding the thesis together are rejection of sociostructural explanations of suicide, and the development of a case for a more cultural perspective. The book consists of an Introduction and 4 substantive papers. The Introduction covers three broad areas: suicide and the social responses to it; the historical roots of the study of suicide (’suicidology’) ; and the arguments and conclusions to be found in the main body of the thesis. While