Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940
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Keeping America sane: psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1086-3176
DOI: 10.1353/bhm.1999.0050