Year: 1975 Source: Baltimore, Md.: University Park Press, 1975. p.51-75 SIEC No: 19870943

Presents a comprehensive discussion of social & cultural aspects of suicide in Buenos Aires including historial transcultural processes in Argentina, historic evolution & causes of suicide, current suicide data, relationship between suicides & suicide attempts, substitutive forms of self-destructive behavior, alcoholism & drug addiction as correlative factors, attitudes & feelings toward suicidal behaviour, & treatment & prevention problems in mental health services. (44 refs.) (LH)