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A COMMITTEE for the study of suicide consisting of ten members including Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Edward Sapir, professor of anthropology at Yale University, has recently been incorporated to make a comprehensive study of suicide as a social and psychological phenomenon. The following general outline has been adopted by the Committee: (1) intramural studies of individuals inclined to suicide in selected hospitals for mental diseases; (2) extramural studies of ambulatory cases with suicidal trends or with obsessional wishes for their own death; (3) social studies of suicide; (4) ethnological studies, that is, comprehensive investigation of suicide among primitive races; (5) historical studies.
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Scientific Study of Suicide. Nature 138, 583 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138583a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138583a0