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Night falls fast : understanding suicide
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Night falls fast : understanding suicide

Author: Kay R Jamison
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Vintage Books edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kay R Jamison
OCLC Number: 45170689
Description: x, 432 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Buried above ground: an introduction to suicide -- ch. 1. Death lies near at hand: history and overview -- ch. 2. To measure the heart's turbulence: definitions and magnitudes -- Essay: this life, this death -- pt. 2. Just hope has gone: psychology and psychopathology -- ch. 3. Take off the amber, put out the lamp: the psychology of suicide -- ch. 4. Burden of despair: psychopathology and suicide -- ch. 5. What matters it, if rope or garter: methods and places -- Essay: the lion enclosure -- pt. 3. Pangs of nature, taints of blood: the biology of suicide -- ch. 6. Plunge into deep waters: genetic and evolutionary perspectives -- ch. 7. Death-blood: neurobiology and neuropathology -- Essay: the colouring to events: the death of Meriwether Lewis -- pt. 4. Building against death: prevention of suicide -- ch. 8. Modest magical qualities: treatment and prevention -- ch. 9. As a society: the public health -- ch. 10. Half-stitched scar: those left behind.
Responsibility: Kay Redfield Jamison.

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