Night falls fast : understanding suicide

Jamison, Kay R. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780375701474 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 0375701478 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: x, 432 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
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Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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.