The Anatomy of Suicide
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. ERRATA.4. CHAPTER I. SUICIDES OF THE ANCIENTS.—ANCIENT LAWS AND OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF SUICIDE.5. CHAPTER II. WRITERS IN DEFENCE OF SUICIDE.6. CHAPTER III. SUICIDE A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN.—IT IS NOT AN ACT OF COURAGE.7. CHAPTER IV. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN MENTAL STATES IN INDUCING THE DISPOSITION TO SUICIDE.8. CHAPTER IV. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN MENTAL STATES IN INDUCING THE DISPOSITION TO SUICIDE. (continued 2)9. CHAPTER V. IMITATIVE, OR EPIDEMIC SUICIDE.10. CHAPTER VI. SUICIDE FROM FASCINATION.11. CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENTHUSIASM AND MENTAL IRRITABILITY WHICH, IF ENCOURAGED, WOULD LEAD TO SUICIDE.12. CHAPTER VIII. PHYSICAL CAUSES OF SUICIDE.13. CHAPTER IX. MORAL TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL MANIA.14. CHAPTER X. PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF THE SUICIDAL DISPOSITION.15. CHAPTER XI. IS THE ACT OF SUICIDE THE RESULT OF INSANITY?16. CHAPTER XII. SUICIDE IN CONNEXION WITH MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.17. CHAPTER XIII. STATISTICS OF SUICIDE.18. CHAPTER XIV. APPEARANCES PRESENTED AFTER DEATH IN THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE.19. CHAPTER XV. SINGULAR CASES OF SUICIDE.20. CHAPTER XV. SINGULAR CASES OF SUICIDE. (continued 2)21. CHAPTER XVI. CAN SUICIDE BE PREVENTED BY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS?—INFLUENCE OF MORAL INSTRUCTION.—CONCLUSION.22. FOOTNOTES: