Clinical genetics: ghanaian gratitude for british and hungarian contributions: a personalized historical perspective.
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There is, surely, a place for expression of gratitude by an African for British and Other Contributions in Acquired and Genetic Disease Research in his country of birth. Professor Stephen K Addae has comprehensively documented, with expressions of gratitude here and there, the “Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana 1880-1960”. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine has already published “British Contributions to Medicine in Africa after the Second World War” 2 but these contributions majored on Acquired Disease, with little said about Clinical Genetics.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Ghana medical journal
دوره 43 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009