Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior
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Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior

A Sociobiological Perspective

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior

A Sociobiological Perspective

About this book

Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective reviews the status of suicide and other exceptions to the prevailing regularities of behavior. This book discusses the apparent anomaly of self-destructive behavior; current incidence of suicide and self-injury; self-destructiveness in other species; and biological fitness and social ecology of suicide. The pro-suicidal gene expression and natural selection; death concept; breakdown of other life-preserving factors with coping failure; and selection processes and altruism are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the chronic self-abuse, risk taking, and self-injurious or self-mutilative behavior. This publication is a good source for anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and social scientists concerned with self-destructive behavior.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. The Apparent Anomaly of Self-Destructive Behavior
  7. Chapter 2. The Current Incidence of Suicide and Self-Injury
  8. Chapter 3. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
  9. Chapter 4. Self-Destructiveness in Other Species
  10. Chapter 5. Biological Fitness and the Social Ecology of Suicide
  11. Chapter 6. Cultural Evolution and Suicide
  12. Chapter 7. Stress, Pathology, and Suicide
  13. Chapter 8. Coping Failure, Senescence, Gene Expression, and Suicide
  14. Chapter 9. Altruism and Suicide
  15. Chapter 10. Suicide, Physiology, and Behavioral Predispositions
  16. Chapter 11. Ethics and Suicide
  17. Chapter 12. Limitations and Qualifications
  18. Chapter 13. Suicide: A Synthesis
  19. Chapter 14. Parasuicide and Suicide
  20. Chapter 15. Chronic Self-Abuse, Risk Taking, and Other Self-Damaging Behavior
  21. Chapter 16. Self-Injurious or Self-Mutilative Behavior
  22. Chapter 17. Toward an Expansion of Research Paradigms
  23. References
  24. Author Index
  25. Subject Index