A question of medicine answering

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

• Publication date

  1989-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1007/BF00052046PMID 2612188
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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