Health Care: Regulation, Economics, Ethics, Practice.Philip H. Abelson, ed
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Anthropology Newsletter
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0543-2499,1937-6219
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1980.12.1.02a00270