Scale, context, and causes of suicide in the United States

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-114

  Cutchin, Malcolm P ^a   Churchill, Robert R ^b  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

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