Questioning the suicide of resolve: Medico-legal disputes regarding overwork suicide in twentieth-century Japan

Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 257-280

  Kitanaka, Junko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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