In ‘modest but practical ways’: medical practitioners and substance misuse in Aboriginal Australians
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Harith Swadi is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University (PO Box 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates; Fax: (9713) 672 995; e-mail: [email protected]) and a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist currently practising in the Middle East. Formerly, he was Senior Lecturer at the St Thomas’ Hospital Campus of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1444-0903
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2003.00438.x