Samobójstwa polskich marynarzy jako jedna z przyczyn zgonów na statkach morskich – przegląd badań (1)
Suicides of polish sailors as one of the reasons for causalities on marine ships – research review (1)

Summary/Abstract: Seaman’s work on the sea-going ship gives occasion to number of negative circumstances for physical and psychical spheres of his life. Environmental disturbances, impossibility of abandonment of a ship, separation with family or friends make people of the sea one of professional group of highest both risk and percentage of suicides. The author pays special attention to social importance of seamen’s suicides that is connected with their circumstances, quantity and unexpectedly high percentage in total amount of seamen’s deaths at work. A value of this paper is also reminder of a term ‘calenture’, almost forgotten and unknown in contemporary scientific literature, probably connected with the seamen’s inclination to suicide. The article is based on analysis of committed suicides, as well as hazy results of researches over them.

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