November of the Soul The Enigma of Suicide

Name: November of the Soul The Enigma of Suicide
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ISBN: 9780743264471

ISBN-10: 0743264479

ISBN-13: 9780743264471

Edition: 2006

Authors: George Howe Colt

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Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects of suicide -- its cultural history, the latest biological and psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on suicide's survivors. Presented with deep compassion and humanity,…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 2/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.20" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book of the year, and November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide. nbsp;He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, Anne Fadiman, and their two children.



Introduction


Preface to the First Edition



Adolescent Suicide



Justin



The Slot Machine



Brian



Something in the Air



Dana



"Use the Enclosed Order Form to Act Immediately. You Could Save a Life"



Beginning to Close the Door



History



Primitive Roots: The Rock of the Forefathers



The Classical World: "He Is at Liberty to Die Who Does Not Wish to Live"



Renaissance and Enlightenment: "It Is His Case, It May Be Thine"



Science: Moral Medicine and Vital Statistics



Faith, Hopelessness, and 5HIAA



The Range of Self-Destructive Behavior



Winner and Loser



Under the Shadow



The Manner of Dying



The Numbers Game



Backing into the Grave



Prevention



Connections



Suicidology



Treatment



Social Studies



Life or Liberty



The Right to Die



A Fate Worse Than Death



"Your Good End in Life Is Our Concern!"



"The Limits Are Obscure ... and Every Errour Deadly"



A Model Hemlock Couple



Survivors



Merryl and Carl



The Mark of Cain



Merryl: The Torture Chamber



The O'er-Fraught Heart



Merryl: The Jigsaw Puzzle



A Safe Place



Merryl: The Building Blocks



A Place for What We Lose



Merryl and Carl


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Resources


Index