Psychosocial study of epilepsy in Africa.

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  1997-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00414-5PMID 9226801
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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