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American Suicide [Paperback]

Howard Kushner (Author)

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Paperback: 262 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (January 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813516102
ISBN-13: 978-0813516103
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,360,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ON Saturday morning the first of February, 1724, John Valentine, seventy-year-old former provincial attorney general, left his Boston house to speak with Robert Auchmuty, a fellow attorney. Read the first page

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psychocultural biology, urban suicide, suicide completion, black suicide, incomplete mourning, suicide epidemic, suicide statistics, moral treatment, suicide problem, frontier myth, frontier hero

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United States, San Diego, New York, Max White, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, San Francisco, Increase Mather, Samuel Sewall, Thomas Lincoln, Mary Owens, Suffolk County, American Journal of Insanity, Aubrey Wendling, Israel Rosenfield, John Valentine, Ruth Cavan, William Lewis

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Suicide in America (New and Expanded Edition) by Herbert Hendin on 7 pages
The Social Meanings of Suicide by Jack D. Douglas on 6 pages
Suicide by Emile Durkheim on 5 pages
The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine by Morris J. Vogel on 5 pages
Suicide and Scandinavia by Herbert Hendin on 4 pages

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True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by G. Thomas Couser on page 49
Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith in Back Matter
Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America (Documents in American Social History) by Robert A. Rockaway in Back Matter
The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation by Robert Jay Lifton in Back Matter
Where the Roots Reach for Water : A Personal & Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith in Back Matter

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