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Preoperative Evaluation by Echocardiography
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educated at Harvard University and New York University, and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1978. His research has centered on epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues lying at the boundaries between economics and philosophy. He is the co-founder and former co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. His most important books are The Inexact and Separate Science of E...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.62.732.925