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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copy Page
• Dedication
• Introduction to the Transaction Edition
• Preface
• 1 Preventing Suicide
• The Nature of the Problem
• Strategies for Preventing Suicide
• Reducing Access to Lethal Agents
• The Research Plan
• The Ethics of Preventing Suicide
• Conclusions
• 2 Detoxification of Domestic Gas
• Detoxification in England and Wales
• Detoxification in Scotland and the Netherlands
• Detoxification in the United States Study 3
• Conclusions
• 3 The Toxicity of Car Exhaust
• Car Exhaust Suicides in the United States Study 4
• Comparison of the United States and Great Britain Study 5
• Conclusions
• 4 Firearm Availability and Suicide
• Suicide and Estimates of Gun Availability in the United States
• A Further Attempt to Estimate Gun Availability
• A Comparison of the United States and Australia
• Gun Ownership in the United States and Suicide Rates from 1959 to 1984
• Conclusions
• 5 Handgun Control Statutes
• Earlier Research on Gun Control Laws
• Coding and Scaling the Gun Laws
• Handgun Control and Deaths from Suicide Study 10
• Characteristics of the Handgun Laws Study 11
• Availability of Guns and Moral Opposition to Suicide Study 12
• Conclusions
• 6 Displacement Between Methods
• The Concept of Displacement
• Evidence from the Present Studies
• Availability of Drugs
• Conclusions
• 7 Explaining Choice of Method
• Availability and Accessibility
• Suggestion and Symbolism
• Personal Requirements and Cultural Norms
• Choice Structuring Properties of Methods of Suicide
• Perception of Different Methods Study 13
• Reasons for Choice of Method Study 14
• Conclusions
• 8 Implications for Theory and Prevention
• A Decision Theory of Suicide
• A Public Health Approach to Prevention
• Suicide-Proofing the Environment
• Reducing Acceptability and Suggestion
• Conclusions