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Is there a biology of suicide?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Kevin M Malone*
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Mater Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin 7, Ireland.
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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