Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science Terrie M. Romano
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Making medicine scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0823-2105,2371-0179
DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.20.2.452