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Self-destruction in the promised land : a psychocultural biology of American suicide
- Title
- Self-destruction in the promised land : a psychocultural biology of American suicide / Howard I. Kushner.
- Author
- Kushner, Howard I.
- Publication
- New Brunswick [N.J.] : Rutgers University Press, ©1989.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Suicide > United States > History
- Suicide > Suicidal behavior > Psychological aspects. > United States
- Suicide > Physiological aspects
- Suicide > United States > Psychological aspects
- Suicide > history
- Suicide > psychology
- Suicide > Psychological aspects
- Suicide
- Suicide > Physiological aspects
- Suizid
- Zelfmoord
- Suicide > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique
- Suicide > Aspect psychologique
- Suicide > Aspect physiologique
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [245]-268.
- Contents
- From crime to disease, 1630-1843 -- Rise and decline of moral treatment, 1844-1917 -- Specialization and its casualties, 1917-1988 -- Official statistics and cultural meaning -- Two strategies -- The psychocultural meaning of suicide -- Toward a psychocultural biology -- Epilogue: from Jamestown to Jonestown.
- ISBN
- 0813513774
- 9780813513775
- LCCN
- 88018351
- OCLC
- ocm18135265
- 18135265
- SCSB-1721827
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library