PREFACE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF SUICIDE.
CHAPTER III. NOTABLE SUICIDES. I.? Mentioned in the Bible.
CHAPTER IV. LITERATURE.
CHAPTER V. CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE.
CHAPTER VI. CIVIL JURISPRUDENCE.
CHAPTER VII. PRESENT SUICIDE RATE AND INCREASE.
CHAPTER VIII. THE CAUSATION OF SUICIDE.
CHAPTER IX. RACE, GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES, AND CLIMATE.
CHAPTER X. EDUCATION, RELIGION, AND MORALS.
CHAPTER XI. URBAN AND RURAL LIFE; EMPLOYMENT; ARMY, NAVY, AND PRISON LIFE.
CHAPTER XII. SEASONS AND TIMES.
CHAPTER XIII. SEX, AGE, AND SOCIAL STATE.
CHAPTER XIV. INSANITY IN RELATION TO SUICIDE.
CHAPTER XV. EPIDEMIC SUICIDE; SUICIDE FROM IMITATION, AND DESIRE FOR NOTORIETY.
CHAPTER XVI. BODILY DISEASES; INSOMNIA, SPIRITUALISM, HEREDITY, AND ALCOHOLISM.
CHAPTER XVII. TAEDIUM-VITAE, THE PASSIONS, MISERY AND DESPAIR.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MEANS OF SUICIDE.
CHAPTER XIX. SUICIDE AND CRIME COMPARED; AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
CHAPTER XX. SUICIDE IN BRITISH INDIA.
CHAPTER XXI. THE PREVENTION OF SUICIDE, AND THE TREATMENT OF THE SUICIDAL TENDENCY IN THE INSANE.
CHAPTER XXII. SUICIDE OF ANIMALS.
APPENDIX. THE ATTITUDE OF ASSURANCE COMPANIES TO THE SUICIDE.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
INDEX.
Title: Suicide
Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention
Author: W. Wynn (William Wynn) Westcott
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A Social Science Treatise.
SUICIDE
ITS
HISTORY, LITERATURE,
JURISPRUDENCE,
CAUSATION, AND PREVENTION.
BY
W. WYNN WESTCOTT, M.B. Lond.
DEPUTY CORONER FOR CENTRAL MIDDLESEX.
Joint Author of the
Extra Pharmacopoeia.
LONDON:
H. K. LEWIS, 136, GOWER STREET, W.C.
1885.
