
THE TENDER CUT |
Subtitle:
Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
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Book Category:
Social Science > Sociology > General
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Author:
Adler, Patricia A. and Adler, Peter
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
0814705073
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ISBN 13:
9780814705070
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Price:
USD 22.00
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
NYU Press. InquiryBook Description
Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents.
Book Review and Awards
Choice OAT, Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction