Catchword: Werther effect

Filed under: English, Health

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Experts say the sometimes graphic reporting may have triggered a “Werther effect”—the term sociologists coined to refer to a surge in suicides in Europe after publication of Goethe’s tragic novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

Article or document title:
“S.Korea grasps for ways to tackle surge in suicides” (URL)

Author:
Kim Kyoung-wha

Article, document, publication, web site:
Reuters

Date of publication:
Jan. 12, 2005

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