Self-immolation: Cause and culture

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 988-993

  Romm, Sharon ^a,b   Combs, Heidi ^a   Klein, Matthew B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; BURN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; LITERATURE; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SUICIDE;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FIRES; HUMANS; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; MUSIC; MYTHOLOGY; POLITICS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 57149088291     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e31818b9ed4     Document Type: Review

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