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Night falls fast
Night falls fast: understanding suicide
Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1999.
ISBN: 0375401458   DDC: 616.85844500973   LCC: RC569  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-414) and index.

I. Buried Above Ground: An Introduction to Suicide. 1. Death Lies
Near at Hand: History and Overview. 2. To Measure the Heart's
Turbulence: Definitions and Magnitudes -- Essay: This Life, This
Death -- II. Just Hope Has Gone: Psychology and Psychopathology. 3.
Take Off the Amber, Put Out the Lamp: The Psychology of Suicide. 4.
The Burden of Despair: Psychopathology and Suicide. 5. What Matters
It, If Rope or Garter: Methods and Places -- Essay: The Lion
Enclosure -- III. Pangs of Nature, Taints of Blood: The Biology of
Suicide. 6. A Plunge into Deep Waters: Genetic and Evolutionary
Perspectives. 7. Death-Blood: Neurobiology and Neuropathology --
Essay: The Colouring to Events: The Death of Meriwether Lewis -- IV.
Building Against Death: Prevention of Suicide. 8. Modest Magical
Qualities: Treatment and Prevention. 9. As a Society: The Public
Health. 10. A Half-Stitched Scar: Those Left Behind -- App. Resources
for Information About Suicide, Mental Illness, and Alcohol and Drug
Abuse.

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Dewey Class: 616.85844500973 -- Diseases
LCC Number: RC569

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 432 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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