Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
29 October 2008
repeat 02 Nov
HUMAN REMAINS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Tiffany Jenkins, author of a paper called Dead Bodies: The Changing Treatment of Human Remains in British Museum Collections and Adam Kuper,Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University discuss the acquisition and restitution of human specimens by museums and the changes in attitudes towards them from outside the museum world as well as from within.
SUICIDE RATES Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Stephen Platt, one of this country’s leading experts on suicide, about the nature and incidence of suicide in contemporary Britain. How is an unexplained death classified as a suicide? Are suicide rates falling and could this trend be reversed by the current economic crisis?
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Tiffany Jenkins
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury
A poem for Sarah Baartman, a poem written by Diana Ferrus on the return of the remains of Sarah Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’, to South Africa after being on display in Europe for over 200 years.
Professor Stephen Platt
Director, Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh
Epidemiology Of Suicide And Parasuicide
Stephen Platt
Journal of Psychopharmacology, Vol. 6, No. 2 suppl, 291-299 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0269881192006002021
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