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898303 JAGXXX10.1177/0733464819898303Journal of Applied GerontologyBook Review book-review2020 Book Review Journal of Applied Gerontology 2020, Vol. 39(6) 681 –682 Book Review © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464819898303 DOI: 10.1177/0733464819898303 journals.sagepub.com/home/jag Marson, S. M. (2019). Elder suicide: Durkheim’s vision. Washington, terms, but cannot be reduced to psychological or biological DC: NASW Press. 169 pp. $ 37 (pbk), $32 (e-book). ISBN: explanations. Durkheim claimed that human societies could be studied scientifically with a methodology focused on “social facts,” or elements of collective life that exist inde- Reviewed by: Paula R. Seffens, University of North Georgia, pendently of, and are able to exert influence on, individuals. Gainesville, USA and William S. Seffens, Seftec, Inc., Atlanta, GA, Chapter 1 relates Durkheim’s Suicide to modern 21st- USA century gerontology practice. The author proposes that bal- ance between theory and empiricism is the best platform for social intervention. Marson’s book illustrates how We reviewed this recently published book, Elder Suicide: Durkheim’s work provides a rational framework for treading Durkheim’s Vision by Stephen M. Marson, as a wife and hus- through the incoherent jumble of data in the area of older band team academically engaged with human physiology adult self-maltreatment. Durkheim described four environ-
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