Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Long-Term Perspectives: Chronology, Gender, Life-Course, Ethnicity, and Method
  • Relationships: Sex, Alcohol, and Violence, 1900-80
  • Dark Days and Golden Weather: Despair and Work, 1900-80
  • Life Diminished: Illness and Trauma, 1900-2000
  • Mental Illnesses: Representation and Therapy, 1900-2000
  • The Youth Suicide Panic: Framing a Mental Health Crisis, 1988-96
  • What Is Happening to Our Children? Youth Suicides, 1980-2000
  • Decisions: Impulse and Reason in Historical Time, 1900-2000
  • Conclusion: History's Patterns and Prevention's Obstacles
  • Appendix One: Methodology
  • Appendix Two: Writing Style Notes.