Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Graphs ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Theory, Conjecture, and Politics
7. Suicide as a Gauge for the Times: The Nineteenth Century 19
8. Epistemic Communities and the Suicide Problem: The Twentieth Century 62
9. Rates, Society, and Motives
10. Bearings on a Temporal Compass: Rates, Seasons, Cohorts, and Motives 109
11. Work and Troubles: Men and Motives 162
12. Sorrows and Burdens: Women and Motives 123
13. Rationality, Psyche, and Treatment
14. What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? Intentions, Decisions, and Acts 265
15. Managing Mental Crises: Psychiatry and Suicidal Patients 304
16. Conclusion 345
17. Notes 359
18. Index 429