A groundbreaking book about suicide.
In this new edition of his acclaimed work, Dr. Herbert Hendin casts new light on the problem of suicide, offering what he calls a "psychosocial perspective." Demonstrating that treatment of seriously suicidal people is possible, he also shows how our social policy toward suicide is marked by misconception. He evaluates the "right-to-die" movement, and in a comprehensive new chapter he presents a powerful portrait of euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands. Interviews with the leading practitioners and proponents are included. This book has much to say not only about how we die but also about how we choose to live.
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Physician-assisted suicide is not an easy, open-and-closed subject. Herbert Hendin has produced a remarkable document about the experience of the Netherlands. If you have not read it, you owe it to yourself to do so. (Dr. C. Everett Koop )
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Herbert Hendin, M.D., is executive director of the American Suicide Foundation and professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College. He lives in New York.
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SUICIDE SEEMS SUCH AN individual and personal act whose consequences are tragic to a relatively small group of family, colleagues, and friends that it is easy to lose sight of its social dimension. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suicidal homosexuals, relation between suicide, suicidal young people, black suicide, fatal suicide attempt, suicidal students, suicidal patients, euthanasia advocates, bereavement therapy, young urban blacks, suicide prevention centers, suicide prevention programs, suicidal individuals, euthanasia cases, involuntary euthanasia, lost love object, student suicide, assisted suicide, actual suicides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Los Angeles, World War, Derek Humphry, Mental Health Law Project, Karl Menninger, University of California New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
SUICIDE SEEMS SUCH AN individual and personal act whose consequences are tragic to a relatively small group of family, colleagues, and friends that it is easy to lose sight of its social dimension. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suicidal homosexuals, relation between suicide, suicidal young people, black suicide, fatal suicide attempt, suicidal students, suicidal patients, euthanasia advocates, bereavement therapy, young urban blacks, suicide prevention centers, suicide prevention programs, suicidal individuals, euthanasia cases, involuntary euthanasia, lost love object, student suicide, assisted suicide, actual suicides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Los Angeles, World War, Derek Humphry, Mental Health Law Project, Karl Menninger, University of California New!
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- The Age of Sensation: A Psychoanalytic Exploration by Herbert Hendin on 4 pages
- Suicide and Scandinavia by Herbert Hendin on 4 pages
- Another Country by James Baldwin on page 135, page 136, and Back Matter
- The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by A. Alvarez on page 195, and Back Matter
- Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, 3rd Edition by Derek Humphry on page 183, and Back Matter
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- The Enigma of Suicide: A Timely Investigation into the Causes, the Possibilities for Prevention and the Paths to Healing by George Howe Colt on 11 pages
- Suicide and Attempted Suicide by Geo Stone on 8 pages
- American Suicide by Howard Kushner on 7 pages
- Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and Assisted Suicide (Revised and Updated Edition) by Herbert Hendin on 4 pages
- Why Suicide?: Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide, Attempted S by Eric Marcus on page 113, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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