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Seller notes: From School Library Journal: Grade 7 Up--Previously published as Suicide: The Hidden Epidemic in 1978 and then revised in 1986 (both Watts), this volume features an updated text and bibliography and includes research developments and activities of national, community, and school groups. A historical summary of attitudes in various cultures, societies, and religions sets the stage for a new chapter "Ethics of suicide, " which deals with right-to-die controversies generated by advances in medical technology. Hyde and Forsyth discuss patterns of suicide and factors which seem to be associated with the act. Statistics, which report writers will want, are provided, but the book's emphasis is that more can be learned about suicide by "taking a look at the problems of families and understanding the people in them." Intelligently written and very much to the point in brief, literate chapters, this title does well without the lengthy, in-depth interviews in which some treatments wallow. A first-rate revision of a first-rate book. --Libby K. White, Schenectady County Public Library, NY Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Seller notes: From School Library Journal: Grade 7 Up--Previously published as Suicide: The Hidden Epidemic in 1978 and then revised in 1986 (both Watts), this volume features an updated text and bibliography and includes research developments and activities of national, community, and school groups. A historical summary of attitudes in various cultures, societies, and religions sets the stage for a new chapter "Ethics of suicide, " which deals with right-to-die controversies generated by advances in medical technology. Hyde and Forsyth discuss patterns of suicide and factors which seem to be associated with the act. Statistics, which report writers will want, are provided, but the book's emphasis is that more can be learned about suicide by "taking a look at the problems of families and understanding the people in them." Intelligently written and very much to the point in brief, literate chapters, this title does well without the lengthy, in-depth interviews in which some treatments wallow. A first-rate revision of a first-rate book. --Libby K. White, Schenectady County Public Library, NY Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.