Toward a robust science of suicide: Epistemological, theoretical, and methodological considerations in advancing

Seth Abrutyn1, Anna S Mueller2

  • 1Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Death Studies
|September 11, 2019
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