Suicide

This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library.  Suicide takes almost 30,000 American lives each year. It is the third leading cause of death for young people aged 15-14 years.  Among the elderly, aged 85 years and older, the suicide rate is higher than for any other age group. Suicide cuts across ethnic, economic and social groups. This guide  includes information on suicide, assessment and prevention, attempted suicide, and assisted suicide.

Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes and abstracts / Selected journal articles / More reference sources / Specialized sources / Selected electronic sources

Guides  

Jacobs, Douglas G. (ed.). The Harvard Medical School guide to suicide assessment and intervention.          WM 401 H278 1999

Bongar, Bruce.  The suicidal patient: clinical and legal standards of care. 
         WM 33.1 B663 2002

Kanel, Kristi.  A guide to crisis intervention. 2nd ed.
         WM 401 K264 2003

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael.  The right to die with dignity: an argument in ethics, medicine, and law. 
         W 85.5 C634 2001

Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries

Hawton, Keith and Heeringen, Kees van (eds.). The international handbook of suicide and attempted suicide.
        HV 6545 I673 2000

Rudd, M. David et al. Treating suicidal behavior: an effective, time-limited approach.
        WM 165 R822 2001

Bernstein, Carol A. et al. On call psychiatry. 2nd ed. p. 73-80.
        WM 401 O524 2001

Kopelman, Loretta M. and Kenneth A. De Ville (eds.).  Physician-assisted suicide: what are the issues? 
         W 50 P399 2001

Selected textbooks

Maris, Alan L. et al. Comprehensive textbook of suicidology.
        HV 6545 M274 2000

Shneidman, Edwin S. Comprehending suicide: landmarks in 20th-century suicidology.
        WM 165 S364 2001

Shaffer, David and Bruce D. Waslick (eds.).  The many faces of depression in children and adolescents.
        WM 171 M269 2002

Stillion, Judith M. and Eugene E. McDowell.  Suicide across the life span: premature exits. 2nd ed.
        HV 6545 S844 1996

Keown, John.  Euthanasia, ethics, and public policy: an argument against legalisation.
        W 32.6 K468 2002

More books  

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog

Suggested subject headings: Suicide
Crisis Intervention
Suicide, Assisted
Suicide, Attempted

Selected journals 

More journals

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Suggested subject headings: Suicide - Periodicals
Attitude to Death - Periodicals

Selected indexes and abstracts  

Index Medicus & MEDLINE  (Off Campus Login Required)

Suggested subject headings: Suicide
Suicide, Attempted
Suicide, Assisted

Academic Search Premier  (Off Campus Login Required)

Search using keywords: Suicide
Assisted Suicide
Attempted Suicide
Suicide Prevention
Suicidal Ideation

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Suggested Subject headings: Suicide
Assisted Suicide
Attempted Suicide
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Centers
Suicidal Ideation

Selected journal articles  

Leenaars A. Can a theory of suicide predict all "suicides" in the elderly?  Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.  2003;  24(1):7-16.

Ganzini L. et al.  Nurses' experiences with hospice patients who refuse food and fluids to hasten death.  The New England Journal of Medicine. 2003 July; 349(4):359-65.

Koplin B. et al.  Suicidality in children and adolescents: a review. Current Opinion in Pediatrics.  
 2002 December; 14(6):713-17.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with suicidal behavior. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.  2001 July; 40 (7 Suppl):24S-51S.

Hedberg K. et al. Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, 2001.  New England Journal of Medicine.  2002 February; 346(6):450-2.

More reference sources

Lester, David.   Suicide prevention: resources for the millennium.
        HV 6545  S842 2001

Poussaint, Alvin F. and Amy Alexander.  Lay my burden down: unraveling suicide and the mental health crisis among African-American.
        E 185.62 P687 2000

Wertheimer, Alison.  A Special scar: the experiences of people bereaved by suicide. 2nd ed.
        HV 6545 W477 2001

Specialized sources

On our own terms: Moyers on dying.
        AUDIOVISUALS WB 310 M693 2000

Department of Psychiatry.  601-984-5803.
        University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
        John W. Pruett, MD. jpruett@psychiatry.umsmed.edu
        John W. Norton, MD. jnorton@psychiatry.umsmed.edu
 

Selected electronic sources

AFSP: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
http://www.afsp.org/

American Association of Suicidology
http://www.suicidology.org/

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.mentalhealth.org/suicideprevention/

Physician-Assisted Suicide.  Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/chs/pas/pas.cfm/

Author:  Helvi McCall
Copyright 2004 Reference Department, Rowland Medical Library,
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson