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Science 24 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5449, pp. 2455 - 2456
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5449.2455
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MENTAL HEALTH:
So That Others Might Also Live

A review by Leon Eisenberg

Night Falls Fast Understanding Suicide
Kay Redfield Jamison
Knopf, New York, 1999. 446 pp. $26. ISBN 0-375-40145-8.

In this account of the biological and psychological reasons that interact to cause suicide and the strategies being developed to combat them, Jamison blends straightforward reports of facts and figures with lyrical essays about individual deaths.
The author is in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 20115-6019, USA. E-mail: leon_eisenberg{at}hms.harvard.edu

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