Abstracted Empiricism in Social Epidemiology
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عنوان ژورنال: Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1403-8668,1404-4013
DOI: 10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.08717