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By Paul C. Holinger, Daniel Offer, James T. Barter, and Carl C. Bell. 229 pp. New York, Guilford Press, 1994. $30. ISBN 0-89862-788-5.

Except for AIDS, there is perhaps no more appropriate focus for epidemiologic study than violent death among the young. Homicide and suicide among adolescents have reached or remain near their highest levels since modern records have been kept and, when paired with unintentional injuries (accidents), account for more years of potential life lost than any other cause. Drs. Holinger, Offer, Barter, and Bell present a definitive and integrative summary of epidemiologic studies of these violent deaths and make a creative effort to set them in a clinical frame of reference.

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