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: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0022-5061,1520-6696
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199823)34:4<414::aid-jhbs25>3.0.co;2-3