Healthy imaginations: A social history of the epidemiology of aboriginal and Torres strait islander health
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Anthropology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0145-9740,1545-5882
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2001.9966187