The plutonium files : America's secret medical experiments in the cold war

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Journal of Public Health Policy

• Publication date

  2002-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.2307/3343234
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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