Why People Kill Themselves

As an annotated review of virtually every suicide study published in the English language between 1990 and 1997, this volume culminates David Lester's study of 100 years of suicide research worldwide. It is a unique work, reaching beyond the approach of computerized services to focus on abstracts and identify relevant articles in the fields of medicine, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, and women's studies. Lester's investigations in this widely researched area are