Confidential death to prevent suicidal contagion: An accepted, but never implemented, nineteenth-century idea
Confidential death to prevent suicidal contagion: An accepted, but never implemented, nineteenth-century idea
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DOI：
10.1521/suli.31.4.460.22043
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发表时间：
2001-12-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Leonard, EC
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作者：
Leonard, EC
19世纪的医学文献经常告诫大众媒体限制自杀的报道，因为他们相信知道别人自杀会刺激一些人自杀。一个1837年的病例报告（也许是最早的尝试在心理解剖：美国医学杂志）进行了讨论，因为它有先见之明地澄清了心理敏化的概念。它的研究导致记录了两个伪造死亡证明的例子。通过不报道自杀事件来防止自杀事件公开的权力可能削弱了报纸限制的努力，编辑抵制和后来接受埃米尔·涂尔干（1897/1951）强烈表达的信念，即自杀事件的报道并没有导致自杀事件的总体增加。尽管在过去的两个世纪里缺乏成功，但出于对自杀传染的担忧，人们继续努力对自杀死亡的报告保密。今天，未经审查的网站和书籍鼓吹自杀可能会限制美国卫生局局长的“行动呼吁”，以防止自杀，这再次支持自愿媒体克制报道自杀的好处。
Nineteenth-century medical literature often admonished the popular press to limit reports of suicide, because of a belief that knowledge of another's suicide could stimulate some persons to kill themselves. An 1837 case report (perhaps the earliest attempt at a psychological autopsy in an :American medical journal) is discussed, because it presciently clarifies the concept of psychological sensitization. Its study leads to documentation of two examples of falsified death certificates. The power to prevent publicity of suicide by not reporting it may have diminished efforts for newspaper restraint, as did editorial resistance and later acceptance of Emile Durkheim's (1897/1951) strongly expressed belief that reports of suicide did not cause an overall increase in suicide. Despite lack of success over the past two centuries, efforts to keep reports of self-inflicted death confidential continue to flow from concern about suicidal contagion. Today, uncensored websites and books advocating suicide may limit the benefit of the U.S. Surgeon General's "call to action" to prevent suicide, which again supports voluntary media restraint in reporting suicide.