TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The cultural turn in critical suicidology: what can we claim and what do we know?
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Bantjes, Jason
A1  - Swartz, Leslie
SP  - 512
EP  - 520
VL  - 41
IS  - 8
N2  - The cultural turn in critical suicidology notes the limitations of dominant acontextual, biomedical, quantitative approaches to suicide prevention. Qualitative methods are idealized within this cultural turn as the only way to advance suicidology. Qualitative methods, however, also have limitations. Drawing on our research with traditional healers in South Africa, we explore tensions associated with making truth claims based on qualitative research. Turning the critical gaze on our work we consider the question of what we can claim to know about suicide prevention when investigating culture using qualitative methods. We suggest a circumspect approach to making truth claims about what the cultural turn can achieve.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2017.1333355
ID  - ref1
ER  -