Beyond the Tower of Babel: A nomenclature for suicidology

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 237-252

  O'Carroll, Patrick W ^a   Berman, Alan L ^b   Maris, Ronald W ^b   Moscicki, Eve K ^b   Tanney, Bryan L ^b   Silverman, Morton M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DEATH; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TERMINOLOGY; THINKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0029805559     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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